Detecting HTML5’s Placeholder
Update: jQuery Plugin
HTML5 WG has implemented an input or textarea attribute feature named “placeholder.” It acts similar to suggestive pre-populated input text that clears on element focus.
While developing jQuery’s Simple Clearfield I discovered a way to test for the browser’s support of the placeholder attribute. Here’s the code:
function placeholder_support (){
var i = document.createElement('input');
return 'placeholder' in i; // returns true if supported
}
