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August 3, 2010 14:43
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Fallback code for the HTML5 "placeholder" attribute
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| $(function() { | |
| if (!('placeholder' in document.createElement('input'))) { | |
| $('input[placeholder], textarea[placeholder]').each(function() { | |
| var text = this.getAttribute('placeholder'); | |
| var fld = $(this); | |
| function setPlaceholder() { | |
| if (fld.value == text || fld.value == '') { | |
| fld.addClass('jqPlaceholder'); | |
| fld.val(text); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| function removePlaceholder() { | |
| if (fld.value == text || fld.value == '') { | |
| fld.val(''); | |
| fld.removeClass('jqPlaceholder'); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| setPlaceholder(); | |
| $(this).focus(removePlacholder); | |
| $(this).blur(setPlaceholder); | |
| $(this).parents("form").submit(removePlacholder); | |
| }); | |
| } | |
| }); |
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Neat, but could use a bit of work, DRY-wise.