- From: Mallory van Achterberg <stommepoes@stommepoes.nl>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:36:30 +0100
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 01:08:50AM -0800, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > One clarification on that article: placeholder does not disappear on focus, only when you start typing. So you don't have to read ahead of the focus. At least this is true in Chrome, Safari and Firefox on Mac. > > - Maciej This differs per browser. Plenty remove placeholder the moment focus sits on the input. Many users have gotten confused especially since the old Javascripted placeholders did tend to vanish right away onfocus. Even I remember recently trying to select the placeholder in order to remove it because I was not used to using Chrome. -mallory
Received on Wednesday, 20 February 2013 07:20:26 UTC