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 ...
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