On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:29:14 +0100, Mounir Lamouri > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I am working on placeholder implementation on Gecko and I am face of the >> placeholder style customization. Indeed, a website can style the >> input/textearea element which can make default placeholder style >> inappropriate. >> The trivial idea is to create a CSS pseudo-element to style the >> placeholder. I am going to implement that [1] as Webkit did [2]. >> But the properties that will apply to the pseudo-element should be >> limited. Probably only those related to the font. >> >> At the moment, it looks like there is no specification about the style >> customization of the placeholder. Maybe it would be appropriate to >> specify one ? >> >> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457801 >> [2] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21227 > > Can we really not try to push this as pseudo-class and educate the masses? > UAs could do some trickery that their default style rule has higher > specificity than style= or some such to work around the issue WebKit ran > into.
I can't quite parse your comment, Anne. What problems are you referring to that involve default style rules? There's nothing in the cited bug about that. ~TJ
