How to Remove Textbox Suggestions in HTML

When filling out forms, you may encounter textbox suggestions in the empty fields before placing your information. While this is done to speed up the form submission process, it may cause confusion to some and actually slow it down -- especially if the text needs to be deleted before you can type in your own information. Some text suggestions are browser-controlled, and can be removed by turning off auto-complete or auto-fill. However, for textbox suggestions appearing as default text, these can easily be removed if you have access to edit the HTML.

Instructions

1

Open your HTML page in Notepad or an HTML editor.

2

Find the section of code where the form is located. HTML forms begin with the "

" tag.

3

Remove the "VALUE" section of the form field. For example, to remove the textbox suggestion text in the code below, remove VALUE="Enter text here."

It will result in the following code:

4

Save your changes.