Thanks for the advice! I asked the theme developer and they told me it’s apparently a placeholder script but seemed all at a loss for why it was actually there.
Anyway this is what I removed in the js/scripts.js file:
$(“[placeholder]”).each(function(){
if( $(this).val() === “” && $(this).attr(“placeholder”) !== “” ){
$(this).val($(this).attr(“placeholder”));
$(this).focus(function(){
if($(this).val() === $(this).attr(“placeholder”)) { $(this).val(“”); }
});
$(this).blur(function(){
if( $(this).val() === “” ) { $(this).val($(this).attr(“placeholder”)); }
});
}
});
So far all seems to function without a hitch despite it being removed.