Placeholder in IE9

javascript html internet-explorer-9 placeholder
chriscatfr picture chriscatfr · Jun 16, 2011 · Viewed 172.6k times · Source

It seems it's a very well known problem but all the solutions I found on Google don't work on my newly downloaded IE9.

Which is your favorite way in order to enable the Placeholder property on the input and textarea tags?

Optional: I lost a lot of time on that and didn't look for the required property yet. Would you also have some advice for this? Obviously I can check the value in PHP, but to help the user this property is very convenient.

Answer

Chris Jacob picture Chris Jacob · Nov 8, 2012

HTML5 Placeholder jQuery Plugin
- by Mathias Bynens (a collaborator on HTML5 Boilerplate and jsPerf)

https://github.com/mathiasbynens/jquery-placeholder

Demo & Examples

http://mathiasbynens.be/demo/placeholder

p.s
I have used this plugin many times and it works a treat. Also it doesn't submit the placeholder text as a value when you submit your form (... a real pain I found with other plugins).

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