Title-Based Textbox Hints

Time to rethink my old method of displaying textbox hints with background images. That method still works fine for compact login forms, but what if we have several textboxes on a page with different hints that may need changing. I don't want to have to create/maintain images for each textbox hint, so I'd rather use text. Where should I get that text from though? I could use the label text, but sometimes that needs to be different from the hint. Take this search field for instance: The label here would be "Search:", but in the hint I want to give the user some ...

06/04/2009 | 4 Comments | Filed Under: HTML Read More

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