28362 2015-03-28 22:03:31 +0000 Input Type "email" with attribute "placeholder" comes up as error. Incorrect W3C HTML5 Standards. 2016-03-10 09:17:58 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML Checker General unspecified PC Windows NT RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 rwickland mike+validator cpigat242 mbb448 mike phil wendt.withers www-validator-cvs oldest_to_newest 119012 0 rwickland 2015-03-28 22:03:31 +0000 W3C Bug Description: validator.w3.org error is described as: "Attribute placeholder is only allowed when the input type is e-mail, number, password, search, tel, text, or url." According to World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML5 Standards: Attribute "placeholder" can be used with input type "email" (not "e-mail" as the W3C validator suggests). However, this page does validate at validator.nu Here is our test URL: http://www.unisquare.com/w3c-validation-error.php 119034 1 wendt.withers 2015-03-29 22:45:36 +0000 The following attributes are also flagged incorrectly: required maxlength Example: <input placeholder="test@example.com" required="required" name="email" type="email" value="" maxlength="75" id="email"> 119037 2 wendt.withers 2015-03-29 23:56:01 +0000 *** Bug 28354 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 119039 3 wendt.withers 2015-03-29 23:57:27 +0000 *** Bug 28363 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 119051 4 mike 2015-03-30 08:30:21 +0000 Thanks for reporting this. It was caused by a regression I made with a recent code change. But it should be fixed now. If not, please reopen this bug. 119052 5 mike 2015-03-30 08:31:54 +0000 (In reply to wendt.withers from comment #1) > The following attributes are also flagged incorrectly: > required > maxlength > > Example: > <input placeholder="test@example.com" required="required" name="email" > type="email" value="" maxlength="75" id="email"> Yeah, the root cause there was the same regression, fixed now.