jQuery Watermark and using .Val()

Question

I have a problem in that I am using a simple watermark plugin such that it works

jQuery('#selector').Watermark('Watermark text here ...');

The problem is - when I try and use something like

if (jQuery('#selector').val() != "") { //do stuff }

The statement is True because of the watermark. Is there anyway I can somehow "ignore" this watermark value for my If statement ?

Thanks

http://stackoverflow.com/a/16471949/1257652 – Brett Weber May 09 '13 at 22:33 — Brett Weber, May 09 '13 at 22:33

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 21 '10 at 19:05

3

if (jQuery('#selector').val() != "" && jQuery('#selector').val() != "'Watermark text here ...'") { //do stuff }

This only assumes that the watermark text is static across examples. If not then you may need a collection of watermark texts?

answered Sep 21 '10 at 19:05

dredful

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 21 '10 at 19:04

1

You could ignore the watermark text as well other than empty:

if (jQuery('#selector').val() != "" && jQuery('#selector').val() != "your watermark text")
{
  //do stuff
}

answered Sep 21 '10 at 19:04

Sarfraz

hmm yeah thanks sarfraz - this is exactly what I'd thought of myself. Just wondering whether there was something I was completely missing here :) +1 for this – Tom Sep 21 '10 at 19:04

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

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Similar question here:

The gist of the solution in your case would be:

if ((jQuery('#selector').not('.watermark').val()||'') != "") { //do stuff }

edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

Community

answered Dec 21 '10 at 01:05

Chris

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