Designing an interactive form

I want to show fields to gather name, address, date of hire, and so on, and to make the form more attractive and less cluttered, I want each text field to show a label in the field, rather than an external label preceding the field, such as ("Name," "Address," etc.) and when the user clicks in the field, that label disappears and the user can fill in the field. I've seen Web forms like this, but I don't see an obvious way to do this. I'll try out any suggestions. In the form below, I'd like to get rid of the labels outside the text fields. Is there a way to do this? Thank you.

What would the syntax for this be? I tried
form1.#subform[0].FirstName::mouseEnter - (JavaScript, client)
form1.#subform[0].FirstName.value = "";
which doesn't work. Do you have an example? Or can you point me in the direction of a tutorial or some other online help?
Thank you.

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