15953 2012-02-10 18:48:02 +0000 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 2012-09-14 11:30:57 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED WORKSFORME http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor dave.null mike myakura.web public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking robin public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 63969 0 contributor 2012-02-10 18:48:02 +0000 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 64090 1 myakura.web 2012-02-14 15:00:45 +0000 (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. 70290 2 contributor 2012-07-18 07:16:22 +0000 This bug was cloned to create bug 17913 as part of operation convergence. 73898 3 robin 2012-09-14 11:30:57 +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: Accepted Rationale: It's already in the spec.