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Placeholder is great. Found this for Django: http://github.com/rhec/django-html5/blob/master/html5/forms/widgets.py http://github.com/rhec/django-html5/blob/mas

• ionfish 17y ago
  Dive Into HTML5 [1] demonstrates how one can detect placeholder support; the obvious use case is to use the focus and blur events to mimic the functionality if native support isn't present. Here's some example code, using Ojay [2]. /** * Places the label for a text field within that field, for a simpler * and more intuitive interface to e.g. search forms. */ var labelInField = function(field) { var input = Ojay(field), label = Ojay.Forms.getLabel(field).hide(); if (!label.node || !input.node) return; var labelText = label.node.innerHTML.stripTags(), inputType = input.node.type || 'text'; // Don't bother setting up the event handlers if the browser can detect // the HTML5 placeholder text. if ('placeholder' in document.createElement('input') && input.node.placeholder.length > 1) return; var focus = function() { input.removeClass('empty'); if (input.node.value == labelText) input.node.value = ''; }; var blur = function() { if (input.node.value && input.node.value != labelText) return; input.addClass('empty'); if (inputType == 'text') input.node.value = labelText; }; blur(); input.on('focus', focus); input.on('blur', blur); }; [1] http://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html#placeholder http://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html#placeholder [2] http://ojay.othermedia.org/ http://ojay.othermedia.org/