A jQuery plugin that enables HTML5 placeholder support for legacy browsers
The HTML5 placeholder attribute is awesome, unfortunately only supported by some browsers. This plugin replicates the placeholder behavior for unsupported browsers.
IE 6+ Firefox 3+ Safari 3+ Chrome ✓ Opera ✓ iPhone ✓ Android ✓
Please note The placeholder attribute should not be used as an alternative to a label. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-input-element-attributes.html#the-placeholder-attribute
If you must hide labels, do it with JavaScript as you activate the placeholder.
It's easy!:
$('input[placeholder], textarea[placeholder]').placeholder();
Enjoy.
Native styling of HTML5 placeholders:
::-webkit-input-placeholder {color: red;}
:-moz-placeholder {color: red;}
jQuery-Placeholder toggles a .placeholder class for browser that don't natively support placeholders:
.placeholder { color: red }
Copyright 2011, Daniel Stocks ( http://webcloud.se )
Thanks to Nikita Vasilyev and James Rosen for feedback and contribution.