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Morten Bengtson
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Posted on 05/02/2013 18:38:10

Sometimes a little description/hint under an input field can be a great help for the editor.

We can add a short description in the field name, but that feels a bit wrong. Maybe a separate description field (plain text) is a good idea?

And maybe you could also add the possibility to define some placeholder text (not the same as default value)?

/Morten


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Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 06/02/2013 10:03:34
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Great idea.

 

Could you ellaborate on placeholder text?

 

Thanks!

 
Morten Bengtson
Posted on 06/02/2013 10:44:50
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By placeholder text I mean the text that is displayed inside an input field before the user enters anything - the text could be a hint about what format the text input accepts or just an example of what you can enter. The text goes inside the placeholder attribute and is displayed in the browsers that supports it (you could make it work in all browsers by using a polyfill).

 

Demo: http://webdesignerwall.com/demo/html5-placeholder-text/

 

Documentation: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-author/common-input-element-attributes.html#the-placeholder-attribute

 

 
Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 06/02/2013 11:50:52
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Ah, Great idea!

 

Thanks!