Quick Search Prompt

[Duncan Rounding]

I have a site under developement that doesn't show the Value prompt in the Text Input for the quick search.

In my v7 sites very similar code shows the Prompt 'Quick Search' in the search box prior to getting focus. I want to do the same in v8 (Contemporary) with a prompt of 'Search' with the code below - but no Prompt is showing.

Can anyone tell me what's wrong please?

The created html is:

<form name="simplesearch" method="get" action="http://www.URL.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss900001.pl">
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td align="right" nowrap>
<input type="hidden" name="page" value="search" />
<input type="text" name="SS" size="15" value="Search" onfocus="this.value='';" class="actxxsmall" /> &nbsp;
</td>
<td valign="bottom">
<input type="image" value="ACTION" name="search" src="button_search_button.gif" alt="Go!" />
<input type="hidden" name="PR" value="-1" />
<input type="hidden" name="TB" value="A" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

URL: Edit - URL removed FTTB

[wjcampbe]

My BCNess site shows

<input type="text" name="SS" size="15" value="Quick Search" onfocus="this.value='';" class="actxxsmall" />

[Duncan Rounding]

That just what I have Bill - strange. You can see from my URL above that the Prompt doesn't show on my test site.

(BTW the link in your sig to BCNess times out. I can only get to www.bcness-solutions.ltd.uk)

[wjcampbe]

Duncan,

I spotted the tinyurl after I posted and had a quick look. Will run the tools over it and see if any of them find a breaker.

(Ill change the sig link back to ltd.uk then while the com moves to new hosting - just updated the ltd today using partial site deploy. Took quite well, if I had not forgotten one of the image files for the menu tabs, it might have been perfect first time)

[wjcampbe]

Duncan - might you have white text on a white background?

[Duncan Rounding]

Duncan - might you have white text on a white background?

That was it Bill, thanks - so obvious that I overlooked it. (Fixing it was fun of course - after searching madly for the source actiinic.css, I now know how to modify the CSS as a result. My mindset is slowly changing from V7 to V8!)

...I spotted the tinyurl after I posted...

It was a bit small

PS - URL link has been removed to stay ex-google FTTB