placeholder text in date field

Question

Brand new to Acrobat pro but pretty savy

Ive discovered a way of having placeholder text in a standardtext form field using the below script.

if (!event.value) event.value = "Message text goes here.";

However when putting in a date picker box, it is not very clear what a user should do. When you click into the field the cursor flashes as if you should text, the method of picking from the claendar is not clear and the arrow is not overly obvious.

Is there a way to either make it all a bit clearer (I know that's subjective) or to add placeholder text to the date field ?

Stoy-boy · Answer

I've discovered the following solution:- Put a text field above your date field.- Put in the text field the placeholder text that you want.- Open the properties of your date field, go to "Actions", select "Show/hide a field" and make it so that the text field with the placeholder text is hidden when the date field is clicked.- Applying the above setting will automatically make the text field with the placeholder text hidden. To correct this, go to the properties of the text field with the placeholder text and under "General" select "Visible".

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