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Bug 17937 - 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: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-07-18 07:20 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-17 05:16 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2012-07-18 07:20:08 UTC 
This was was cloned from bug 16817 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-04-22 19:09:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2012-04-22 19:09:43 +0000 
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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 2012-09-17 05:16:04 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r7363.
Check-in comment: Try to clarify placeholder='s role in life.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7362&to=7363