Detecting InputField onFocus

InputField seems to only have OnValueChanged and OnEndEdit as events. I want something like OnBeginEdit or OnFocus to trigger when a user clicks on the InputField in order to clear the Placeholder text. I can simply use a script's Update method to constantly check for this, but I want it to be triggered rather than unnecessarily loop for a check.

Does anyone know how I would go about doing this? Thanks!

 

After some more tinkering I figured it out:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. public class ClearPlaceholderOnFocus : MonoBehaviour, ISelectHandler {
3.     public Text placeholderText;
4.  
5.     public void OnSelect(BaseEventData data) {
6.         placeholderText.text = "";
7.     }
8. }
9.  

Add this script to the InputField, and it will hide the placeholder when you click on it

 

thanks for taking time to put this up here!

 

thanks!

 

thanks works like a charm

 

Thanks brother, u saved my day

 

you need these at the top of the script above

using UnityEngine.EventSystems;
using UnityEngine.UI;

should save someone a few minutes of googling

 

Thanks TMendez and edwon. Worked great and went from search to implement in less than 5 minutes.

 

It is not working on first click, any idea how to fix that?

using 2017.2.0f3 version.