Seen here: http://www.mikeebee.com/staging/ces/working.htm

If I use it how John originally said it doesn’t work at all

Seen here: http://www.mikeebee.com/staging/ces/notworking.htm

If I use the original script written by Nate it doesn’t work at all either.

Seen here: http://www.mikeebee.com/staging/ces/reallynotworking.htm

I’ve double checked that my path to my jquery is ok and it is but I must be missing something!

Hope someone can spot what I’m doing wrong

Thanks

I have written a similar function which goes through the document and stores the “value” attribute of input tags into an array called InitialValues, then uses the stored value to set and clear the search box value.

This means you can change the search label to something like “Type here to search” in the XHTML and the JavaScript functionality still works.

I know this article is more about jQuery but its something you might consider building in :)

$(document).ready(function(){
  $("#input\_search").val("Search").oneclick(function(){
    $(this).val("");
  });
  $("#fancysearch label").hide();
});

A couple items to note:

* You can use “#input\_search” instead of document.getElementById(”input\_search”)
* You can use the new .val() instead of .set(”value”,”foo”)
* You can use .one* if you only want an event to fire once - in this case, .oneclick()
* Also, don’t forget that you can chain operations in jQuery (I chained the val and oneclick methods together, making the code shorter)

Hope this helps!