# Making cool input text fields

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-cool-input-text-fields/157545>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 2, 2005, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-cool-input-text-fields/157545 "2005-08-02T18:07:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Amy\_Saunders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Amy\_Saunders](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Amy_Saunders)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-cool-input-text-fields/157545/1 "2005-08-02T18:07:45Z")

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Hello, I am wondering if anyone can help me (or direct me to an existing tutorial) about making input text fields do cute things.

Specifically, I would like the input text field to display the text “Type Your Name Here” at all times until the user clicks inside the input

text field. And once the user does click inside the text field to start typing his or her name, the “Input Name Here” text dissapears and the

background colour of the input text field changes.