Watermark for Textbox in MVC3

Question

How do I set watermark for a texbox in MVC3 .Also if there are multiple textboxes in a web page, how do you write different watermark text for each textbox?

Answer 1

I usually just use the following jquery,for MVC project on fields which need a watermark: (the code compatible with IE 6 - 9, Firefox 2 - 4, safari 4.

 $('#UserSearch').Watermark("Search term", "#fff");

/// JQuery Plugin code.

(function($) {
var map=new Array();
$.Watermark = {
    ShowAll:function(){
        for (var i=0;i