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It'd be better if it looked for the HTML5 "placeholder" attribute even in older browsers rather than having to use "title" also. Some JS plugins [1] do this to

It'd be better if it looked for the HTML5 "placeholder" attribute even in older browsers rather than having to use "title" also. Some JS plugins [1] do this to replicate placeholder support in older browsers and I don't think there's any downside. [1] https://github.com/mathiasbynens/Placeholder-jQuery-Plugin https://github.com/mathiasbynens/Placeholder-jQuery-Plugin

thristian 15y ago
The trouble is that no version of HTML (currently) allows a "placeholder" attribute on a select element, even HTML5. If you want your pages to validate, @placeholder won't do the trick.
- philfreo 15y ago
  Ah gotcha, wasn't thinking about <select>s. Makes sense.