onFocus Clear

[GermanPrince]

I'm trying to make it so when I select an input field it clears itself. It's not working though. Here is my code:html

<input class="searchbox" type="text" name="searchFor" value="Search" onFocus="clear(this)" onKeyDown="return submitenter(this,event)" />

javascript

function clear(input) {	if (input.value == input.defaultValue)		input.value = "";}

Any suggestions?

[End User]

Try this:<input class="searchbox" type="text" name="searchFor" id="searchbox" value="Search" onFocus="getElementById('searchbox').value='';" />Or, more succinctly, this:<input class="searchbox" type="text" name="searchFor" id="searchbox" value="Search" onFocus="this.value='';" />

[GermanPrince]

Thanks.

[thescientist]

i would just pass this to the clear function, use document.getElementById() on it and then set its value to ""