How can I change this with jquery?
<p>I want to change the text value in the search box to say, for example, "Awesome Search." I know it can be done with Jquery but I can`t get it to work. Can you assist?</p>

<p>Note, this is the default provided by Wordpress, and it would be difficult (for me) to go in and edit the files to separate the content from the behavior, so I need Jquery to override the default. The two answers provided thus far don`t seem to do that. </p>

<pre><code>&lt;input type="text"
       onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'To search, type and hit enter';}"
       onfocus="if (this.value == 'To search, type and hit enter') {this.value = '';}"
       id="s"
       name="s"
       value="To search, type and hit enter"
       class="text_input"&gt;
</code></pre>
