- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:16:02 +0100
Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > I'd suspect that *all* examples where placeholder text is used (definitely > all the examples I know of personally) are most semantically served by a > <label> with the text. Iirc, I once saw a nice javascript solution that > mutated the DOM to remove the <label> and use its text as a placeholder. > Thus, I think this is best served by a CSS directive that does exactly > that. External vs placeholder text is a display issue - semantically, both > are labels for the field. I found real example that uses both a label and placeholder text. In the iPhone, the dialog for setting up a new e-mail account, contains four fields, each with a label and an example provided as placeholder text. These are: [Label] [Placeholder] Name: John Appleseed Address: example at me.com Password: Required Description: My Email Account -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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