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--- ideas:placeholder-styling [2013/01/24 13:09] – [Styling Placeholders] astearns
+++ ideas:placeholder-styling [2013/01/24 13:18] – [Styling Placeholders] astearns
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 So, I recommend we adopt #5.  We can look to WebKit's existing properties for guidance in figuring out the fiddly details (like sizing/positioning of images used for fill/stroke).  The properties will probably go in Text Decoration, but we can figure out exactly where to put them later.
+===== On #6 versus #3 =====
+Option 6 (best of both worlds, new names) is preferable to 3 in that the pseudo-class name better represents the element state, and a specific pseudo-element for the suggested text is more clear than styling a 'placeholder value' which is never properly a value of the input element.