On Feb 18, 2010, at 2:54 PM, L. David Baron wrote:
On Thursday 2010-02-18 16:45 -0600, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
Anne suggested in IRC using the pseudoclass approach, and pairing it
with the ::value pseudoelem from the Basic UI Module. You could get
But the key question (from the Webkit bug) is really whether the UA
styles apply to the input itself or a pseudo-element inside of it.
If the UA style is
input:has-placeholder { color: ... }
then, as far as I can tell, there's no point to styling the ::value.
If the UA style is
input:has-placeholder::value { color: ... }
then you get the same cascading result as with an input::placeholder
pseudo-element (styles that don't select the pseudo-element don't
change the UA default), but with the addition that authors can style
the input in other ways.
If we did that, then one of the two differences between pseudo-class
and pseudo-element approaches would be eliminated - in either case
setting the input color via inline style would not also change the
placeholder text color to the same color.
The remaining difference would be whether you could style aspects of
the input element other than the text in the mode where it is showing
placeholder text. What are the use cases for styling other aspects of
the input element?
Regards,
Maciej
