17913 2012-07-18 07:16:19 +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 2012-09-21 23:18:01 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED WORKSFORME http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian mike myakura.web contributor oldest_to_newest 70289 0 contributor 2012-07-18 07:16:19 +0000 This was was cloned from bug 15953 as part of operation convergence. Originally filed: 2012-02-10 18:48:00 +0000 ================================================================================ #0 contributor@whatwg.org 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 ================================================================================ #1 Masataka Yakura 2012-02-14 15:00:45 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ================================================================================