Thank a ton. Been trying to get the tata indicom to work with mac for the past one year and your suggestion was the first one that worked. Was unable to locate the username and password from any of the tata guys.

Cheers and keep up the good work.
majorsathya@melurmeadows.com

Cheers,
Vishnu

Element.addMethods('input', {
  addAutoLabel: function(element, message){
    element = $(element);
    if(element) {
      if(element.value == '' || element.value == message) {
        element.value = message;
        element.addClassName('inactive');
      }
      Event.observe(element, 'focus', function() {
        if(element.value == message) {
          element.value = '';
          element.removeClassName('inactive');
        }
      });
      Event.observe(element, 'blur', function() {
        if(element.value == '' || element.value == message) {
          element.addClassName('inactive');
          element.value = message;
        }
      });
    }
  }
});
Array.prototype.addAutoLabel = function(message) {
    this.each(function(e){e.addAutoLabel(message);})
}

then to add it to a field (or fields) you invoke:

$('element').addAutoLabel('automatic label');

or

$$('input.someclass').addAutoLabel('automatic label');