Displaying Default text inside </h:inputText> tag:

[Aashish Davee]

Friends:

I want to display Default text in </h:inputText>. Which gives idea about "What to input in textbox".

  <h:inputText size="23" required="true" requiredMessage="Please enter email id" value="#{userDataBean.userId}" id="email">
           <a4j:support event="onblur" action="#{userServiceBean.checkUSerAvailability}" reRender="check"/>
</h:inputText>

But the problem is I don't want to use value attribute of </h:inputText> tag. Since I am using validation on these textboxes.
Is there any other way to set Defult Text using CSS or JavaScirpt or JQuery or Third Party Tool available.

Please help me out.