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Bug 15953 - Section title: "The placeholder attribute" "User agents should present this hint to the user, after having stripped line breaks from it, when the element's value is the empty string and the control is not focused (e.g. by displaying it inside a blank unfo
Summary: Section title: "The placeholder attribute" "User agents should present this h...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-02-10 18:48 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-14 11:30 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2012-02-10 18:48:02 UTC 
Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/spec.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
Section title: "The placeholder attribute"

"User agents should present this hint to the user, after having stripped line
breaks from it, when the element's value is the empty string and the control
is not focused (e.g. by displaying it inside a blank unfocused control)."

Usability would be improved if the wording was changed to ensure that the
placeholder remained visible when the control was focussed.

Placeholder text often contains information that is helpful to the user when
filling out the control. This should remain visible until the last possible
moment (i.e. when the user starts typing.)

Suggested rewording:

"User agents should present this hint to the user, after having stripped line
breaks from it, when the element's value is the empty string (e.g. by
displaying it inside a blank unfocused control)."

Posted from: 81.100.168.129
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_2) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.77 Safari/535.7
Comment 1 Masataka Yakura 2012-02-14 15:00:45 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Placeholder text often contains information that is helpful to the user when
> filling out the control. This should remain visible until the last possible
> moment (i.e. when the user starts typing.)

This was fixed in http://html5.org/r/6782 . Now that implementations can display placeholder text upon focus. Chrome and Safari have already behaved as you describe.
Comment 2 contributor 2012-07-18 07:16:22 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 17913 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 3 Robin Berjon 2012-09-14 11:30:57 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Rationale: It's already in the spec.