Helptext.js

[luckydev]

jQuery plugin to have help text in the form elements

[richbradshaw]

Why wouldn't you use the placeholder, attribute, then detect support, then use a fallback if needed... Something like:

function hasPlaceholder() { var input = document.createElement('input'); return ('placeholder' in input); }

should do the job to detect support.

[timmyd]

Was thinking the exact same thing - placeHolder support is native with HTML5 spec - so better to utilize the 'future' and rollback for IE<9

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-placeholder-a...

[luckydev]

thanks for the info. I created this for my project. It worked, so I open sourced this small chunk of code.

In HTML5 way, I need to do it first and then have to write a fallback mechanism. Kinda too long for me :) Instead, I chose what works perfectly now.

[koblas]

Not sure why... in-field labels are a better approach. http://bit.ly/r4vVAa Plus the placeholder attribute is the long term.

[Vekz]

What if I want my password field to say 'password', and on focus to be obscured with dots?