[whatwg] Should editable elements have placeholder attribute?

Ryosuke Niwa rniwa at webkit.org
Tue May 1 22:00:13 PDT 2012


Hi,

Would it be useful to have placeholder content attribute on elements that
are editable? (i.e. contenteditable=true).

According to the original WebKit bug
21286<https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21286>,
this may reduce the amount of code authors have to write.

Best,
Ryosuke Niwa
Software Engineer
Google Inc.


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