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Cool script which displays ‘help text’ in a text box until it’s selected, then it disappears and allows the user to input text. It’s simple and just a few lines of javascript!

Javascript:
function clearText(field){
if (field.defaultValue == field.value) field.value = ”;
else if (field.value == ”) field.value = field.defaultValue;
}
Textbox input:
<input name=“s” type=“text” maxlength=“106″ id=“icePage_SearchBoxTop_qkw” class=“wsSearchBoxInputCommon wsSearchBoxInput” value=“Enter suburb name here, eg: hawthorn” onFocus=“clearText(this)” onBlur=“clearText(this)”/>

A good lightbox alternative, extremely lightweight (22kb!)

http://www.orangoo.com/labs/GreyBox/

There are issues with flash overlapping the greybox in Firefox 2+.? After hours of playing around I came up with the solution below:

1. Add wmode=”opaque” to the embed tag

2. Add the paramater: param name=”wmode” value=”opaque”

3. Put the flash content in a div, and set the z-index of that div to 2.

4. Place the content you are wanting to display in the greybox also in a div, with a z-index of 1.

Presto!