- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:21:23 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Ojan Vafai wrote: > > I don't follow. What's the difficulty with supporting placeholder for > contentEditable? Unlike form controls, contentEditable content is rendered using CSS rules, so a placeholder would have to somehow fit into the CSS model. We'd need a way to distinguish a contentEditable section that has user input vs one that is empty, for example. In general I think it's better for us to just leave this up to the user agent. > The point is that you want it to correspond to focus state, so generated > content doesn't really help you much there. CSS has :focus; does that not help? > > For <textarea>, a placeholder value seems odd. Do you have examples of > > people doing that? > > I don't have examples other than Thomas's, however, a quick google > search<http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLD_enUS289US301&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=textarea+with+placeholder+text>does > point to a lot of tutorial sites for adding placeholder text to > textareas. I don't quite see what's odd about it though. It's just > another case where you want to communicate what the user should put into > an text-entry area and it has all the same complexity to the web > developer that a text input has. Fair enough. Added. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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