# Input Text Question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-question/120608>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 25, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-question/120608 "2004-08-25T21:10:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![wizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a87d85/32.png) [@wizard](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wizard)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-question/120608/1 "2004-08-25T21:10:45Z")

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Let me get right to the point – You’ve seen those Input Text Fields on web sites that have titles on them, i.e. Name, Email, Message, in the Text field itself.

Then, when you click on the the text field to type something in, the “title” disappears and you can type your info in.

Perfect example: [KurtNoble.com](http://www.kurtnoble.com/) (Under “contact”)

How do I do this?

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**Author:** ![Prophet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/838e76/32.png) [@Prophet](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Prophet)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 10:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-question/120608/2 "2004-08-25T22:14:03Z")

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AS Panel\>Objects\>Movie\>Text Field\>Methods\>onSetFocus  
go play 😉

Prophet.

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**Author:** ![wizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a87d85/32.png) [@wizard](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wizard)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 10:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-question/120608/3 "2004-08-25T22:38:42Z")

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> [@Prophet](#):
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> AS Panel\>Objects\>Movie\>Text Field\>Methods\>onSetFocus  
> go play 😉
> 
> Prophet.

Very close… it was: AS Panel\>Objects\>Movie\>Text Field\> **Events** \>onSetFocus

Even so, that wasn’t much help to me… how about an explanation, or the ActionScript itself? :beam:

Thanks anyway.

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**Author:** ![egoldy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/egoldy/32/385_2.png) [@egoldy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/egoldy)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-question/120608/4 "2004-08-26T01:07:58Z")

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you can test this:

input.onSetFocus=function(){  
input.text=" ";  
}

“input” is your textfield name.