Visibility description text fields in form in Acrobat Pro

Hello

I do a lot of forms for one of my clients. The largest part, I have been doing for indesign CC, but a few specific changes I need to do in Acrobat Pro. There is one thing that I can't understand, lets see if I can describe it correctly;

One of the 'forms' is a certificate of my clients customers get. On this certificatie is a graphic box in which the accounts manager, makes the sale, must type the name of the new customer's company.

So I made a field of text for this, but here's the thing:

I would like to display the description of the field (which is 'Type the company name') visible on the field in acrobat.

1 account manager opens the form

2 sees where to type the name of the company

3 types

4 the description will be invisible with printing

It would be even better if the description text becomes invisible after typing, but maybe it's a bridge too far?

Can someone help me with this, or maybe look into another?

Thank you!

Best regards, Liek

Use the following JavaScript in custom Format for the text field:

Custom Format script for the text field

If (! event.value) {}

Event.Value = "instructional text goes here";

Event.Target.Display = display.noPrint;

} else {}

Event.Target.Display = display.visible;

}

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