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Bug 14567 - Safari on OSX Lion placeholder text doesn't disappear on focus. This is done intentionally http://webk.it/53740 and Chromium guys seems like to do the same. Could the spec change to allow so that placeholder text disappears when users start input?
Summary: Safari on OSX Lion placeholder text doesn't disappear on focus. This is done ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-10-26 12:02 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-18 18:42 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-10-26 12:02:46 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-input-element-attributes.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-placeholder-attribute
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-placeholder-attribute

Comment:
Safari on OSX Lion placeholder text doesn't disappear on focus. This is done
intentionally http://webk.it/53740 and Chromium guys seems like to do the
same. Could the spec change to allow so that placeholder text disappears when
users start input?

Posted from: 207.46.55.254
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.918.0 Safari/535.7
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-28 23:11:11 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 2 contributor 2011-10-28 23:12:17 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6782.
Check-in comment: loosen implementation requirements around placeholder=''.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6781&to=6782