Google Chrome(v17) not clearing placeholder text about jquery-placeholder HOT 7 CLOSED

That’s how Chrome handles placeholder now. Safari has the same behavior. This has nothing to do with the plugin, as the plugin won’t do anything in case the browser natively supports placeholder.

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OMG you are fast :)

Could you provide some info about that please? I tried googling around but have failed.

So making webkit browser behave as others will require some workaround. I guess i will have to tell client that this is how webkit works now and "no" workaround is possible... ;D

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Well, a workaround is possible, but you’d have to remove the placeholder attribute and fake it yourself (possibly by using a modified version of this plugin).

Here’s the commit from two months ago: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/101848 (This is for Chrome; Safari has had it for a while now.)

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Yeah, i know it's possible, but, like you said, that requires faking it... =D

Thanks Mathias! You are the best! Looking forward @ http://2012.front-trends.com =D

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Oh cool, you’ll be there too! Come say hi! :)

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You can add this to the end of file to fix Webkit:

// Fixing Webkit that not clearing input/textarea when get focus
$(function(){
if ($.browser.webkit) {
$('input, textarea').on('focus',function(){
if ( $(this).attr('placeholder') ) $(this).data('placeholder', $(this).attr('placeholder')).removeAttr('placeholder');
}).on('blur', function(){
if ( $(this).data('placeholder') ) $(this).attr('placeholder', $(this).data('placeholder')).removeData('placeholder');
});
}
});

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I see this as a bug in Firefox; Chrome & Safari handle placeholders properly. Clearing out the placeholder on focus removes the placeholder when it's most needed. Looking for a plugin that will address this Firefox bug...

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