- From: Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:50:11 -0700
- To: Markus Ernst <derernst@gmx.ch>
- Cc: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
On 3/18/13, Markus Ernst <derernst@gmx.ch> wrote: > Hello Whatwg > > On several occasions I encountered that users got confused by the > placeholders on input fields. In a doodle.com survey last week, 2 out of > 5 people answered me via e-mail that they were not able to fill in their > names in the "name" field, because they tried to highlight and delete > the placeholder saying "Your name". > As an example, ergo-log.com search box uses the INPUT's 'value' for placeholder text, requiring the user to select and change its value. > User agents should present this hint to the user, after having stripped > line breaks from it, when the element's value is the empty string or the > control is not focused (or both), e.g. by displaying it inside a blank > unfocused control and hiding it otherwise. > Awkward. > To: > > ...when the element's value is the empty string _and_ the control is not > focused, e.g. by displaying ... Clearer and makes sense from a U/X perspective. When the field is focused automatically with autofocus, should the placeholder be hidden or is this a special case? -- Garrett Twitter: @xkit personx.tumblr.com
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