Fades out the placeholder text on focus instead of clearing it out completely. Restores the placeholder text on blur, if no value was entered. Supports Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and IE 7, 8, and 9!
Copyright (C) 2013 Wesley Musgrove
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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$(document).ready(function() {
$("input, textarea").placeholder();
});
<input type="text" id="txtFirstName" name="txtFirstName" value="" placeholder="Enter First Name...">
<textarea id="txtArea1" name="txtArea1" placeholder="Placeholder Text..."></textarea>