HTML5 introduced the "placeholder" attribute on input elements, which allows to display a greyed-out default text. But Sadly the Internet Explorer, including IE 9 does not support it. I got a solution. Just try this.
if(navigator.appVersion.match(/MSIE [\d.]+/)){
var placeholder = $('input[type=text]').attr('placeholder');
var placeholderText = placeholder;
$('input[type=text]').val(placeholderText);
$('input[type=text]').blur(function(){
$(this).val() == '' ? $(this).val(placeholderText) : false;
});
$('input[type=text]').focus(function(){
$(this).val() == placeholderText ? $(this).val('') : false;
});
}