- From: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:10:33 -0700
- To: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- CC: Olivier GENDRIN <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Ben Boyle wrote: > Yes I'd support that and I'll suggest "prompt" or "hint" as possible names. > I'm not sure how it would work with backwards compatibility though. > Just for the record: We have attribute named 'novalue' for that purpose. novalue=“text” - if text input is empty then it shows text provided by the novalue attribute. <select> and other text input alike elements also supports novalue in the same way. We also support CSS state/selector :empty that allows to style 'novalue' state. I think that "novalue" is more precise than "hint" or "prompt" for the no-value-given situation. -- Andrew Fedoniouk. http://terrainformatica.com > > On 10/22/07, Olivier GENDRIN <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello list ! >> >> On some projects, clients ask me to insert inside a select an false >> option that indicates the function of the form element (ex: >> http://surveylink.yahoo.com/wix/p1484643.aspx, item 4 has an option >> 'please select you answer). >> >> When I have to do that in an input@text, I can use @value as default text. >> >> Couldn't we have an new attribute for the select that will be >> displayed if no option is selected ? No idea for her name but >> embededlabel. I'll search a better one. >> >> -- >> Olivier G. >> http://www.lespacedunmatin.info/blog/ >> >> > > >
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