# Text disappear
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-disappear/17780
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [April 9, 2003, 5:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-disappear/17780 "2003-04-09T05:34:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@displaced](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/displaced)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2003, 5:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-disappear/17780/1 "2003-04-09T05:34:39Z")
Does anyone know how to make the text already in the input text box disappear when you click on it.
For example:
|enter email| - this is loaded when the page is loaded
|\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_| - then disappears when you click to type
: : I thought it would be very simple, but i guess not : :
THANKS in advanced!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-disappear/17780/2 "2003-04-09T05:39:46Z")
It is simple 🙂
[AS]cta.text = “enter e-mail”;
cta.onSetFocus = function() {
this.text = “”;
};[/AS]
cta is the INSTANCE name of the textbox in this case (NOT VAR NAME!!!)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-disappear/17780/3 "2003-04-09T05:40:20Z")
it’s simple indeed :)… give your field the instance name ‘myTextfield’, and have this code on the parent timeline
```auto
myTextfield.onSetFocus = function() {
myTextfield.text = ""
}
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-disappear/17780/4 "2003-04-09T05:40:52Z")
copycat 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2003, 5:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-disappear/17780/5 "2003-04-09T05:45:13Z")
lol
you beat me this time:-\
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2003, 5:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-disappear/17780/6 "2003-04-09T05:50:31Z")
Will i need the var name if it is needed for a php file
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2003, 5:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-disappear/17780/7 "2003-04-09T05:52:12Z")
then you can say
you can simply go like **myPHPvariable = myTextfield.text** 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2003, 5:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-disappear/17780/8 "2003-04-09T05:56:02Z")
Thanks guys again for the fast advice!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2003, 5:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-disappear/17780/9 "2003-04-09T05:57:54Z")
dont thank me, thank lostinbeta 😛 :trout:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2003, 6:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-disappear/17780/10 "2003-04-09T06:22:05Z")
No thank ahmed 😛 :trout: