OnFocus Clears Current Value in Input Box

[markk]

Recently, we upgrade to 3.8.4PL1 and did some major restyling of the mesage board. One of the behavior that our users noted was that <input> fields on forms such as "edit thread" have the behavior where the current (default) value disappears when the cursor is focused on the field. This is problematic for users editing fields like title where the want to modify the title based on the previous title.

The question is how is retain the behavior such then when the cursor is focused on an <input> field that to starts the field for editing with the current "value=" attribute rather than blank.

Thanks,
Mark K.