detect when any text field on my form has changed

I have a form with a whole bunch of text fields on it, I would like to detect when any of those fields have changed so that I can some css properties. Right now I have grey text in the fields explaining what it does, one the user clicks on the field, i want the text to disappear and the color to go back to black. is there any easy way to do this?

TIA :)

JavaScript

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Big Monty

8/22/2022 - Mon

Amar Bardoliwala

3/19/2012

Hello The_Big_Daddy,

you will need to use onfocus event of textbox as following

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<p>
 <input name="text1" type="text" id="text1" value="textbox 1" onFocus="this.style.background ='yellow';this.value=''" onBlur="this.style.background='white'">
</p>
<p>
 <input name="text2" type="text" id="text2" value="textbox 2" onFocus="this.style.background = 'yellow'" onBlur="this.style.background='white'">
</p>
</body>
</html>

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Hope this will help you.

Thank You.

Amar Bardoliwala

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Big Monty

3/20/2012

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Proculopsis:

Is there any way to make it so I do not have to add classes to all of my text boxes? there a lot of them and they already have classes assigned to them (not the same name) and would require me to rewrite other jQuery code where I'm selecting certain text boxes by class name

Big Monty

4/9/2012

ASKER

not the exact solution I added but pointed me in the right direction

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