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February 16, 2012 13:31
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HTML input field placeholder handling
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/* Hide/show placeholder text in an input field while it's empty | |
* To use, add data-placheholder="placeholder text" to your fields | |
* Eg: <input type="text" id="email" value="" data-placeholder="Enter your e-mail"> | |
*/ | |
$('input[data-placeholder]').each(function(){ | |
$(this) | |
.bind('focus', function() { | |
if ($(this).val() == $(this).data('placeholder')) | |
$(this).val(''); | |
}) | |
.bind('blur', function() { | |
if (!$(this).val()) | |
$(this).val($(this).data('placeholder')); | |
}) | |
.trigger('blur'); | |
}); |
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