Thanks Jukka. I think I'll take your suggestion to put (city or zip) outside the box.
But be aware you can style text within a text box -- font, size, weight and color. Best, CC On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Jukka K. Korpela <[email protected]> wrote: > Ce Ce wrote: > > > Can default "value" text be two different styles within the same > > textbox? > > No, because the text needs to be plain text - no way to insert markup > there, > thus no inner elements. > > > For example -- in one input text box I'd like to put: > > Location (city or zip) > > > > Can "Location" be large and "(city or zip)" styled smaller? > > No. But why would you do that? It could mislead the user into thinking that > the input can be "rich text". > > Moreover, this does not look like a useful default value but an > explanation - something that should _precede_ the field, as a label, and > then you can style its part, if you just use some inner markup, e.g. > > <label for="loc"><span class="foo">Location</span> (city and zip):</label> > <input id="loc" ...> > > -- > Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ <http://www.cs.tut.fi/%7Ejkorpela/> > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [[email protected]] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
