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despair
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on my friends site in the comment section she has text inside each box speciying what to do in them..(click the link to see what im talking about)
how in the world do you do that?

http://ami.leavinghere.com/archives/00000010.htm#comments

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pretexted text in a textbox

<input type="text" value="put your instructions here" />
<textarea>put your instructions here</textarea>

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pretexted text in a textbox

i figured out how to do it for the commenting box,, but for the http/url/name boxes it wont work

plus she told me for the http/url/name she didnt do the textarea, but she did for the comment part

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pretexted text in a textbox

forgot to log in,, the guest would be me

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pretexted text in a textbox

View the source (in IE : View->Source) and scroll down to the bottom...

<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="newcommentemail" SIZE=30 VALUE="@">

The VALUE attribute is what you're after.

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