Not passing placeholder text

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I have several fields in a form that contain placeholder text prior to the user populating it with their own data. It's just a mix of javascript onfocus/onblur tags to show/hide the placeholder text. I'm looking for suggestions on a DRY way of preventing the placeholder text from being saved to the database without having to check each field manually.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

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Anyone?

- j

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Justin,

I think a Javascript helper method which attachs to the submit event of the form would be DRYest. It could even borrow some code from the functionality that shows/hides the placeholder text.