RE: place-holding characters in edit/text boxes

At 10:23 AM 8/27/2003 +0100, Lauke PH wrote:
>I usually tend to have a single space as default value. It's unobtrusive
>(as opposed to longwinded placeholders such as the ones you mention...sure,
>you can use javascript to clear the input onfocus, but that won't prevent
>Lynx users and co. from having to painstakingly delete the default value 
>before
>being able to enter their text), and the leading space character that may
>be passed on as a result of this can easily be filtered out server-side
>(for search boxes, it usually doesn't have any influence on the search 
>results).
>
>But yes, I'd like to hear other list members' opinions on the "single space"
>solution (?)

But doesn't this defeat the reason behind placing default text in edit 
boxes? The related WCAG item says "Some legacy assistive technologies 
require initial text in form controls"  - out of curiosity, which user agents?

Thanks.


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