[whatwg] Placeholder option for text input boxes

Garrett Smith dhtmlkitchen at gmail.com
Tue Sep 30 12:36:18 PDT 2008


On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp
<nils-dagsson-moskopp at dieweltistgarnichtso.net> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 30.09.2008, 11:49 -0700 schrieb Garrett Smith:
>> Are there any arguments against a |placeholder| property on INPUT?
> Missing semantics ? It is a purely presentational attribute.
>

The semantics would be simple property access:

input.placeholder

- as demonstrated in the example I posted up.

Garrett

> Cheers,
>
> Nils
>
>



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