How to design Text box for showing temporarily text

[deepaksharma]

I have designed a login page which has two text boxes, one for userid and the other for password. I want the user ID and password text to temporarily appear in light color in the text boxes as per the attached image, until the user clicks on these text boxes.
How do I design a text box for this?
Thank you.

[Bob Fitz]

Perhaps set its Default property

[Welshgasman]

You set the background as you want in design mode and then OnFocus or OnEnter you change the values.?

[deepaksharma]

Thanks to both of you, I first put the default value user name and password in both the text boxes and after that i controlled them with got focous and lost focus.
Thank you both.

[moke123]

You could also use the format property.

[Minty]

You could also use the format property.

It would be really useful if you could specify a larger range of colours or other properties in that format property, especially on continuous forms.

[moke123]

@;[Cyan]"UserID"
@;[Blue]"UserID"
@;[red]"UserID"
@;[green]"UserID"
@;[yellow]"UserID"

How many colors do you need?

[Micron]

You're allowed 8 basic colours and grey is not one of them, correct?

[Minty]

You're allowed 8 basic colours and grey is not one of them, correct?

Correct, I mean I'm being picky here, but grey isn't an option, and you can't alter the font size or type.

I'm sure the Access bods will pick this up and fix it before they sort out the new SQL editor

[isladogs]

Ha! That gives them plenty of time!

There are ways around this depending on what you are trying to do. For example, see Colour Conditions (isladogs.co.uk)

[moke123]

Seems to work ok.

Private Sub Form_Load()
    Me.Text2.ForeColor = RGB(203, 203, 203)
End Sub


Private Sub Text2_Change()
    Me.Text2.ForeColor = vbBlack
End Sub


Private Sub Text2_Exit(Cancel As Integer)
    If Nz(Me.Text2, "") = "" Then
        Me.Text2.ForeColor = RGB(203, 203, 203)
    End If
End Sub

Conditional formatting also works.

[CJ_London]

you missed

Black, White, Magenta