Detecting InputField onFocus

Unity Engine
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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!

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After some more tinkering I figured it out:

public class ClearPlaceholderOnFocus : MonoBehaviour, ISelectHandler {
    public Text placeholderText;

    public void OnSelect(BaseEventData data) {
        placeholderText.text = "";
    }
}

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

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thanks for taking time to put this up here!

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thanks!

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thanks works like a charm

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Thanks brother, u saved my day

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you need these at the top of the script above

using UnityEngine.EventSystems;
using UnityEngine.UI;

should save someone a few minutes of googling

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

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

using 2017.2.0f3 version.