Not as big deal, but I have a form where I’ve put text in for the user to know what goes there. Then, they just type over it.
How do I make it so once they click in the field, the sample text disappears and they just type.
Thanks.
Bob
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That’s called a Placeholder, and you can make one in Freeway 6, or use Freeway 5 and my HTML5 Element Action to convert the page to HTML5 and add the attribute. Note that only modern* browsers will see this – so think of it as the icing, not the cake. It’s always best if you have a label of some sort near the field.
Walter
*This means IE 9 and above, or almost any version of Firefox, Chrome, Opera, or Safari.
On Feb 26, 2013, at 2:05 PM, Robert B wrote:
Not as big deal, but I have a form where I’ve put text in for the user to know what goes there. Then, they just type over it.
How do I make it so once they click in the field, the sample text disappears and they just type.
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OK. I’ll leave it the way it is, where they just type over it.
Not sure what browsers these folks might be using.
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I’ll leave it the way it is, where they just type over it.
That means that the form can be submitted with whatever default text you have in there - you don’t want that.
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Well, it says first name on one and last name in the other. I would hope people know to type their name in it, no?
I guess I could leave them blank.
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Use the Placeholder attribute and then at least folk with a modern browser will get the benefit.
The point is that you shouldn’t rely on only Placeholder text to tell your visitors what should go in which field. Use Text labels.
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How would I do text labels, Dave?
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All I mean is that you have text next to the field entry (to indicate what is required) such as at http://www.deltadesign.co/formtest.html
You probably have it anyway.
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Actually, we didn’t in this one instance.
The form is “I, (first name( (last name) hereby, blah blah…” so we didn’t think it was necessary.
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You have to remember that forms are not a level playing field if you are blind or visually impaired.
Text can be read by screenreaders - but if there is none!
You may not think that your form would ever be attempted by someone in that situation - but you cannot afford to exclude them.
Besides it makes sense to spell things out and not rely on a feature that you may see but others definitely won’t.
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OK. I’ll put in text instructions.
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