[whatwg] [WF2] Clear On Focus attribute
Alexey Feldgendler
alexey at feldgendler.ru
Wed May 23 01:47:51 PDT 2007
On Wed, 23 May 2007 02:31:38 +0200, Charles Iliya Krempeaux
<supercanadian at gmail.com> wrote:
> You need a label for the field... but don't want to put one beside it.
> So the label goes inside the field... until you click on it. (At
> which point the label disappears.)
The field's value shouldn't be abused to achieve this effect because the
label is not a value. Stylesheets should be used to get a semantically
appropriate piece of information, such as the field's title, to display in
the box when the field is empty and has no focus.
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Alexey Feldgendler <alexey at feldgendler.ru>
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