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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_current = this; | |
| if (this.value == '' || this.value == text) { | |
| $(this).addClass('jqPlaceholder'); | |
| this.value = text; | |
| } | |
| $(this).focus(function() { | |
| if(this.value == text || this.value == '') { | |
| this.value = ''; | |
| $(this).removeClass('jqPlaceholder'); | |
| }; | |
| }); | |
| $(this).blur(function() { | |
| if(this.value == text || this.value == '') { | |
| $(this).addClass('jqPlaceholder'); | |
| this.value = text; | |
| }; | |
| }); | |
| $(this).parents("form").each(function() { | |
| $(this).submit(function() { | |
| if(fld_current.value == text) { | |
| fld_current.value = ''; | |
| } | |
| }); | |
| }); | |
| }); | |
| } | |
| }); |
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Neat, but could use a bit of work, DRY-wise.