13099 2011-06-30 15:47:13 +0000 Why doesn't the SELECT element have a placeholder attribute? Often a dropdown box contains an initial text like "Please make a choice". 2014-06-17 04:04:30 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG LC1 HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED NEEDSINFO http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-select-element P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian 7raivis ayg jackalmage jonas mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 50496 0 contributor 2011-06-30 15:47:13 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-button-element.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-select-element Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-select-element Comment: Why doesn't the SELECT element have a placeholder attribute? Often a dropdown box contains an initial text like "Please make a choice". Posted from: 88.242.25.224 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0 50498 1 jackalmage 2011-06-30 15:56:00 +0000 It does, it just doesn't use @placeholder to do it, because there's already an established pattern for "placeholders" in a <select>. Just put @required on the <select>, then the first <option> is a placeholder if its value is the empty string. That is, something like this: <select required> <option value>Make your meat choice!</option> <option>Ham</option> <option>Pepperoni</option> <option>Bacon</option> </select> 50521 2 ayg 2011-06-30 20:52:33 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the Editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the Tracker Issue; or you may create a Tracker Issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Additional Information Needed Change Description: no spec change Rationale: Per comment 1, we already have a mechanism for this, which relies on a convention that long predates the placeholder attribute. Is there something specifically wrong with it that would justify supporting a redundant mechanism to do the same thing? 52727 3 mike 2011-08-04 05:03:52 +0000 mass-moved component to LC1