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I have a form on the page and I'm trying to use the following code to make the text "enter your email" disappear when the form field is clicked:
Whether i put the code directly into the page or in a content block the result is similar:

string(131) "Smarty error: [in globalcontent:mailinglist line 8]: syntax error: unrecognized tag: this.value='' (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 446)" string(119) "Smarty error: [in globalcontent:mailinglist  line 8]: syntax error: unrecognized tag '' (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 590)"

Subsequent reloads of the page remove the error, but also strip out the offfending code from the form:

{ this.value=''; }"

Is there any way to get this to work?

thanks

Gareth

As has been stated numerous times in this forum before (you would have found it with a quick search)..... javascript, because of it's { and } characters conflict with smarty.

You need to use the {literal} and {/literal} tags appropriately so that that doesn't happen.

The exact solution I'll leave as an exercise to you.

thanks Calguy. I'm relatively new to cmsms so please excuse my lack of diligence in looking for the answer.

anyway, i put the {literal} tag around the form code and it works great....

give a man a fish and he eats for a day.....

Sorry, I can't resist and it is off topic, sort of....the above reply reminds me of a saying I heard once, not sure who coined the phrase....

give a man a program, frustrate him for a day....teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime. :0)

No truer words....and for CMSMS, the more I use this program, the more I love it.

Darling

yeah, that saying is true.... I'm going on 15 years now of 'frustration'