jQuery: textarea default value disppear on click

Question

I want a textarea with some default text. When the user clicks in the textarea the default text should be deleted. How can I make value of a textarea disappear on click?

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Answer 1

And if someone wants to do this trick on a ajax loaded textareas you can achieve this with the .live() event ;)

$('#textarea').live('focusin',function () {
        if (this.value === 'leDefault ...') {
            this.value = '';
        }
    });
    $('.larger').live('focusout',function () {
        if (this.value === '') {
            this.value = 'leDefault';
        }
    });