- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:58:26 -0600
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Mounir Lamouri <mounir.lamouri at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am working on placeholder implementation on Gecko and I am face of the > placeholder style customization. Indeed, a website can style the > input/textearea element which can make default placeholder style > inappropriate. > The trivial idea is to create a CSS pseudo-element to style the > placeholder. I am going to implement that [1] as Webkit did [2]. > But the properties that will apply to the pseudo-element should be > limited. Probably only those related to the font. > > At the moment, it looks like there is no specification about the style > customization of the placeholder. Maybe it would be appropriate to > specify one ? > > [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457801 > [2] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21227 I agree that having a pseudoelement for the placeholder text is a good idea. Perhaps you could bring it up on the www-style list so we can decide precisely what properties should apply to it? It seems reasonable to apply the same restrictions that we currently put on ::first-line (http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html#first-line-pseudo, last paragraph of the section). ~TJ
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