HTML5 Placeholder Input Fields Fixed with jQuery. HTML5 added some new features for input and textarea fields.
One is inspired by Safari’s search box: placeholder This adds an default text if the textfield is empty: jQuery Fix for All Browsers Currently the placeholder works with the latest Webkit (Safari nightly build) and Chrome only. In Safari 4.0 placeholders won’t appear in textareas. For all other browsers, the following short jQuery fix will help you. $('[placeholder]').focus(function() { var input = $(this); if (input.val() == input.attr('placeholder')) { input.val(''); input.removeClass('placeholder'); } }).blur(function() { var input = $(this); if (input.val() == '' || input.val() == input.attr('placeholder')) { input.addClass('placeholder'); input.val(input.attr('placeholder')); } }).blur(); Don’t forget the last blur() call.
Update: Robin mentioned in the comments, that this would post the placeholder values to the form action script. You’ll find the whole code at github. CSS Styling Result. HTML5 Snippets. The html5 switch. Depending on who you talk to, you should have been using HTML5 months, nay years ago; or it's something you might be using in 2022.
As usual the truth is somewhere between the glib extremes. There's no one-size-fits-all answer to questions of platform choice: you have to consider the benefits for your own scenario. But with HTML5 I'd say if you haven't switched yet, for most people it's probably time - there's a form of "switching" that will work for you.
Some people seem caught up on the problem that many features have very poor support across browsers; or are simply put off by the thought of redoing their entire code base. Really though, you don't have to rebuild everything, nor use everything in HTML5 for it to be worthwhile switching your doctype now. Over the past few months I've switched a large application and a few small sites to run the HTML5 doctype. So what have I learned doing this? What do you mean by "use HTML5"? HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default template for HTML5 awesome. The Ultimate HTML 5 Cheat Sheet. Designing websites can be quite a jungle sometimes since, with time, the number of languages at our disposal has gotten so much greater.
Way back when things were new and the Internet only had a couple of million websites (if you could even call them that comparing them to today’s media experiences), HTML was the only language that you needed to master in order to put up a text site to showcase yourself. Well, it was a heck of a lot simpler back then, but since then, the flora of languages to use has grown to what would take you about a library to learn. So which one should you choose if you want to be sure to grab the most inner core functions of the Internet? That’s of course a matter of opinion and taste, but HTML is always a must when putting something online. With the release of HTML 5, things started getting even more complicated. Dive Into HTML5. Dive Into HTML5. HTML5 Reset. Easy HTML5 Template. I’ll be the first to admit that when I see a default template like HTML5 Boilerplate, it brings about a swirl of emotions.
On the one hand, I’m ridiculously intimidated by the incredible amount of knowledge and experience that’s been collected into one place for the benefit of front-end developers. So much so, that I wonder what I’m even doing in this industry, because it reminds me of how far behind I am. On the other hand, I’m inspired, because there’s so much more to learn, and it’s exciting to add new nuggets of knowledge to my toolkit, and I can’t wait to hit the books and grow my knowledge base.
It also helps when others express the same feelings about lagging behind. But I’m getting sidetracked. The Code My little creation here is not meant to compete with any other templates. In addition to the basic HTML5 code to start you out, I’ve also included extensive commenting and some dummy content that makes use of some of the new tags and tag changes in HTML5. Periodic Table of the Elements - Josh Duck.
HTML 5 Templates, HTML 5 canvas, HTML5 video, HTML 5 XHTML, HTML.
HTML5 elements in Internet Explorer without Javascript. Huh?
Section element? I don't see no stinkin' section element. You must be mistaken, pal. What? No, I don't believe in them. John Resig drummed up a clever little solution that uses a tiny piece of Javascript to force Internet Explorer to accept those new elements: javascript: var a = ['section', 'article', 'nav', 'header', 'footer', for (var i = 0, j = a.length; i < j; i++) { document.createElement(a[i]);} Unfortunately, it doesn't work when Javascript is turned off. And of course, after putting a new website live, the client calls up and tells you one of their "clever" system administrators has just turned off Javascript on every single workstation due to "safety concerns" and refuses to turn it back on.