I want to make a search-box for the main page of my site that is sleek-looking with the label within the search field. When I did a simple google search, I saw something about using ‘onfocus’. The simple solution worked fine in Firefox, but when I tried that in IE6, the warning came on and I had to select “allow” to get the proper effect.

I saw in another forum that someone said to do a google search for “compact form” and that brought me to your article.

Using the techniques you’ve published, IE6 fires up the form just fine.

I was wondering about how to go about two things. I would like the value that’s in the field to say “Please enter anything (name, city, zip, etc.) to get started” but don’t think I want this to be a label should JS be disabled. Or maybe I should let the label be this sentence, but wouldn’t it be too long with spaces and everything to be used correctly?

Any advice on this?

Also, What if I wanted two different submit boxes – one for “find” and one for “add” depending on what they wanted to do with what they entered. What’s the best way to go about this?

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

At any rate, I’m wondering if there’s a way to get this to work using jquery? I wish I understood js enough to do it myself.