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I'm currently using..
onfocus="this.value=''; return false;"
to clear the value within my textarea for leaving comments. However, when you click to enter a comment and type a few things, if you were to click outside the box to maybe read something else on the page and then return to your comment by clicking within the textarea box again, it clears your current input.
Is there anyway to clear the textarea on the initial click just to clear the default value and not the rest of the clicks for the rest of the browser page's session?
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To clear the value of a textarea element, set it's value property to an empty string, e.g. textarea. value = '' . Setting the element's value to an empty string removes any of the text from the element. Here is the HTML for the examples in this article.
To clear input values after form submit in React: Store the values of the input fields in state variables. Set the onSubmit prop on the form element. When the submit button is clicked, set the state variables to empty strings.
The <input> tag, helps you to take user input using the type attribute. To clear all the input in an HTML form, use the <input> tag with the type attribute as reset.
It's better to put instructions into a label tag, position it over the textarea, and then hide it or show it if the textarea is focused. The reason for this is because your textearea will be populated with instructions and these might get sent if they are inside a form.
But, solve your problem, all you have to do is:
onfocus="if(this.value== "your initial text"){this.value=''}; return false;"
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