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Bug 21286 - Support newlines in <textarea placeholder>
Summary: Support newlines in <textarea placeholder>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 enhancement
Target Milestone: 2013 Q4
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2013-03-14 10:52 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-10-02 18:27 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-03-14 10:52:15 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-input-element-attributes.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-placeholder-attribute
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-placeholder-attribute

Comment:
Support newlines in <textarea placeholder>

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Comment 1 Anne 2013-03-14 10:52:28 UTC 
Usecase: https://twitter.com/thijs/status/312147259951292416
Comment 2 contributor 2013-10-02 18:27:16 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r8204.
Check-in comment: Let's allow newlines in <textarea placeholder=''> after all, since there are some valid use cases.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8203&to=8204