- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:48:35 +0100
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:29:14 +0100, Mounir Lamouri <mounir.lamouri at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 Can we really not try to push this as pseudo-class and educate the masses? UAs could do some trickery that their default style rule has higher specificity than style= or some such to work around the issue WebKit ran into. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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