Michael E. Carluen wrote:
I am curious as to what might be the advantage of using your overlabel
plugin versus a much shorter script like the one below?
I posted your suggested code at
http://scott.sauyet.com/Javascript/Demo/Overlabel/test.html
and a simple version of mine at
http://scott.sauyet.com/Javascript/Demo/Overlabel/simple.html
I think you misunderstood the point of the script. Yours clears the
input boxes on focus. I guess there might be times when that is useful,
but that wasn't the point of mine.
Mine was meant to reduce the space taken by a label together with an
input box. It puts the labels on top of the input boxes so that you
know what has to be entered in them. On focus that text was cleared,
but it returned on blur unless you've entered text in the box, in which
case, your text displays. If you look at the simple version above
without Javascript and with Javascript, you should see how the space
taken by the form is reduced.
Karl Swedberg suggested that this had to do with accessibility and
graceful degradation. That is certainly correct, but the main point is
simply to reduce the screen real estate taken by the form.
-- Scott
