[whatwg] Input field's hint value

Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com
Wed Feb 21 08:31:26 PST 2007


On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:28:47 +0100, Wolfram Kriesing  
<wolfram.kriesing at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there already such a thing?

I think Webkit supports a placeholder="" attribute on <input> elements  
that does this. Since Web Forms 2 is in a feature freeze it hasn't yet  
been added / rejected. I suppose it might be reconsidered when Web Forms 2  
is merged with the rest of HTML5.


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