On Feb 19, 2010, at 3:41 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:49:19 +0100, Maciej Stachowiak
<[email protected]> wrote:
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?
You could e.g. style the border of the input element to show it has
not been used yet.
That's not what placeholder means though. If you clear out the text in
a text field, it goes back to showing a placeholder. Doesn't seem like
a custom border makes sense in that case. I also expect the
placeholder style would never apply if there is no placeholder text.
So if styling unused controls is really useful, that needs to be a
separate pseudo-class.
Regards,
Maciej
