Value field in web form

Hi
I want to put a default value in a web form feild but when a user clicks the form field the value disappears to allow them to input their text.
How is this done? I tried adding value="text" but this make the value permanent and has to be deleted by the user before they can fill in the field.
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks
Ken

I used this from StackOverflow...
<html>
<head>
<title>
</title>
<script lang='javascript'>
function makeBlank(obj,defMsg){
    if(obj.value==defMsg){
        obj.value="";
function fillDefValue(obj,defMsg){
    if(obj.value==""){
        obj.value=defMsg;
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input style="width:190px" onblur="fillDefValue(this,'User Name')" onfocus="makeBlank(this,'User Name')" value="User Name" name="fromname" id="fromname" type="text">
</body>
</html>
Works nicely :-)

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