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Bug 16817 - What's the difference between input/@title's and input/@placeholder's semantic? Both of them act as the user's advisor and tell you what you can do with the element. "For a longer hint [...], the title attribute is more appropriate." is the only thing I c
Summary: What's the difference between input/@title's and input/@placeholder's semanti...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Silvia Pfeiffer
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-04-22 19:09 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-10-06 00:44 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-04-22 19:09:43 UTC 
Specification: 
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
What's the difference between input/@title's and input/@placeholder's
semantic? Both of them act as the user's advisor and tell you what you can do
with the element. "For a longer hint [...], the title attribute is more
appropriate." is the only thing I could read about.

If there's (another) difference, it would be fine to describe it. If
@placeholder is just physical markup (that's what the attribute's confusing
name denotes), then I think it would be better to present @title like a
placeholder using stylesheets instead of specifing a new attribute called
@placeholder.

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Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 07:20:11 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 17937 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Silvia Pfeiffer 2012-10-06 00:44:10 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description:
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/392a2384a869500adf79a51c2632ad7d3f893c97
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/728b99234145e82c7bf102b64fd854db10c4d613
Rationale: accepted WHATWG change