watermark extender and javascript?

Hi, i have a textbox on the page. When the user clicks on a username in the list to the right i use this javascript to insert their username into the textbox.

function

setTextBoxText(text)
{
var textbox = window.document.getElementById("<%=touser.ClientID%>");
textbox.value ='';
textbox.value = text;
textbox.focus();
}

This works perfectly.

Then i tried to add a TextboxWatermarkExtender and now it does not work anymore, the initial text in the textbox (set by the watermark extender) gets erased, but the username does not show up, it just turns blank and focus is set on the textbox. Is there anyway to fix that?

Patrick

any idea?

I tested this out yesterday and found out that when you use WaterMarked on your textbox, all of the changes to the textbox through javascript will be written to watermarked's layer.

e.g. you have a textbox with onchange or onfocus command to call a javascript function; and the textbox also has a watermarked "Enter Name Here"

Your JavaScript function will insert the user's name into the textbox.

document.getElementById('" & Me.textbox1.ClientID & "').value = 'John Smith';

Problem: What happen is, "Enter Name Here" will be replaced with "John Smith", and the textbox is still empty.

Question, is this a bug or is it as design?