- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:03:36 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 1/22/13 9:58 AM, Simon Sapin wrote: > If an input’s placeholder can have CSS properties that are not the same > as the input itself, it is a pseudo-element. The only meaning I can > imagine for a :placeholder pseudo-class is selecting inputs that are > currently showing their placeholder. > > I seem that IE10 and Gecko18- are using pseudo-class *syntax* for > something that is really a pseudo-element. No, they have a pseudo-class (and I'm not quite sure why you thought otherwise). For example, in Gecko 18, input:-moz-placeholder selects (and styles) inputs that have a placeholder showing. It does not style the placeholder itself. >> - default style: "opacity: 0.54;" [2]. > > The last bit is in the UA stylesheet, isn’t it? Yes. -Boris
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