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| ideas:placeholder-styling [2013/01/24 13:09] – [Styling Placeholders] astearns | ideas:placeholder-styling [2013/01/24 17:15] – [On #6 versus #3] 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. | 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. |
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| | ===== On #6 versus #3 ===== |
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| | 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. Perhaps, given the 'placeholder' attribute in the HTML spec (referring to the suggested text, not the input element state) the pseudo-element should be named ::placeholder and the pseudo-class named :blank or :unedited |
