- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:07:36 -0800
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, Mounir Lamouri <mounir@lamouri.fr>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Jan 24, 2013, at 1:30 PM, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 2013-01-23 10:31 -0800, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> Here are the options that we've come up with so far:
>>
>> 1. Add nothing new, use a :placeholder pseudoclass. Specify that UA
>> styles for placeholders are roughly "input:placeholder { color: #999;
>> }".
>>
>> 2. Add nothing new, use a ::placeholder pseudo-element. Specify that
>> UA styles for placeholders are roughly "input::placeholder { opacity:
>> .5; }".
>>
>> 3. Add a :placeholder pseudoclass, and revive the ::value
>> pseudo-element that once existed in CSS3 UI. Specify that UA styles
>> for placeholders are roughly "input:placeholder::value { opacity: .5;
>> }".
>
> I think I'm probably in favor of #3 at this point.
>
> I don't think it's excess complexity, and I expect the ability to
> style the thing inside the input element will be useful for other
> reasons (including avoiding some of the interaction with native
> theme ('appearance') drawing that occurs when styling border or
> background of the input itself).
>
>> 4. Add a new 'color-opacity' or 'foreground-opacity' property, use a
>> :placeholder pseudoclass. Specify that UA styles for placeholders
>> are roughly "input:placeholder { foreground-opacity: .5; }".
>>
>> 5. Adopt SVG's fill/fill-opacity/stroke/stroke-opacity properties,
>> specifying that they only apply to text, and use a :placeholder
>> pseudoclass. Specify that UA styles for placeholders are roughly
>> "input:placeholder { fill-opacity: .5; }".
>
> I think pursuing #5 is a worthy project, but I think we need a
> solution for placeholder styling sooner than #5 will yield results.
But not a fan of #4? It has more limited scope than #5, and so could maybe get done faster. It would just be interacting with 'color' and 'currentColor', and not with stroke, or with how 'fill' and 'color' are supposed to interact.
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