Comments on: Textbox Hints

By: Raina Gustafson

Raina Gustafson — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:57:34 +0000

Thanks for this. Very helpful.

By: Jason Beaird

Jason Beaird — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:38:51 +0000

@Ove: Yea, defintiely tried that. Don’t you just love IE.

@Ken: I thought about that but in an attempt to keep the css pretty simple I just display noned it. I’ll update the example tonight.

By: Ken Seals

Ken Seals — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:26:40 +0000

Very nice. I get to play with forms pretty much every day.. I’ll definitely be making use of this. Thanks, man!

One bit that caught my eye is using display: none to hide the labels. It might be better to throw it off screen with absolute positioning and a negative margin or something, as some screen readers will actually take into account display: none and hide the label from visually impaired users.

By: Ove

Ove — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:05:19 +0000

Nice one.

The sorry thing is that there is support to do this dynamically (changing the TYPE attribute value), but for some reason IE just won’t comply. I think it’s getting confused and mixes up TYPE in Javascript and the DOM.

Ugly inline example, works in FF, not in IE.

By: Darragh G (Seachmall)

Darragh G (Seachmall) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:43:15 +0000

I normally just display a styled alt under the box via JS/CSS but that way seems alot smoother, very nice.