jQuery placeholder plugin/polyfill

Written by Harry Roberts on CSS Wizardry.

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My good friend, ex-colleague and all round awesome dude Dan Bentley has made a great little jQuery placeholder plugin which polyfills older browsers that don’t support the new HTML5 form attribute placeholder.

Link: https://github.com/danbentley/placeholder

Now I’ll readily admit that Dan has done 99% of the work here, but it has been something of a joint project in that:

• I actually made him build it cos he’s amazing at JS and I needed it.

• I’ve added a tiny, tiny bit of CSS/UI behaviour.

There’s my 1%.

Anyway, follow the project on GitHub, follow Dan on Twitter and GitHub and let us know if you use it!

N.B. All code can now be licensed under the permissive MIT license. Read more about licensing CSS Wizardry code samples…

By Harry Roberts

Harry Roberts is an independent consultant web performance engineer. He helps companies of all shapes and sizes find and fix site speed issues.