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This. Unless your form is incredibly simple (e.g. signup or login) you shouldn't just rely on placeholder text. Apple has a nice solution to this issue on thei
by muglug 14y ago
This. Unless your form is incredibly simple (e.g. signup or login) you shouldn't just rely on placeholder text.
Apple has a nice solution to this issue on their checkout pages - labels placed on top of inputs, only disappearing once text is entered.
- LoganCale 14y agoThe placeholder attribute in recent versions of Chrome behaves the same way—possibly longer, but I only started noticing it recently—the placeholder remains in the field until you've typed a character.
- peterjmag 14y agoI still think inline labels are a bad idea, regardless of placeholder behavior. To quote myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4642146 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4642146
- ghjook 14y ago>This. Hi, samefag.