On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Comment on 4.10.5.2.11 The placeholder attribute: > > What is the user-interaction behavior for this? Should the behavior be > specified, or should this be implementation-dependent?
I believe that there's currently no specific behavior, beyond the requirements listed at http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-input-element-attributes.html#the-placeholder-attribute regarding displaying the value of @placeholder when the input is empty and unfocused. It does give a suggestion for how to display this at the end of that paragraph, though (displaying it inside the input, which is how we're all used to placeholders working). Currently, though, if a UA wanted to display it differently, they could. > http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-placeholder-attribute > (is this the correct URL?) There's nothing wrong with that url, it's just generated last in the chain and so might be a little bit behind (just barely), and uses w3c styling rather than whatwg styling. The primary document is the single-page version at whatwg.org, and the multipage version at whatwg.org is just slightly behind that. ~TJ