The modest Javascript placeholder
SeatHolder is a small Javascript library which lets you display placeholder text (so called seatholders) and place default values to text inputs and textareas with great ease. It uses jQuery (http://jquery.com) to keep your HTML as clean as possible.
Just include SeatHolder after you have included jQuery:
<script src="path/to/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="path/to/seat_holder.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
Note: include seat_holder-min.js for the minified SeatHolder library
Make sure you put the jquery directory in the same directory as the SeatHolder library:
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|-- seat_holder.js
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|-- jquery
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|-- core.js
Just include SeatHolder:
<script src="path/to/seat_holder.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
Note: include seat_holder-min.js for the minified SeatHolder library
Just add the seatholder attribute to your inputs:
<form>
...
<input type="text" name="user[first_name]" seatholder="Your first name">
<textarea name="question[body]" seatholder="Please specify your question"></textarea>
...
</form>
As stated above, you can also specify default values for text inputs and textareas. Just start the seatholder attribute with '&':
<form>
...
<input type="text" name="object[title]" seatholder="&SeatHolder Demo">
<textarea name="object[body]" seatholder="&I would like to receive more information"></textarea>
...
</form>
For a complete live demo, please visit http://codehero.es/demos/seat_holder and http://gettopup.com/demo.
You can tell SeatHolder whether to react on focus events of hinted elements are not and it does at default of course. Just call SeatHolder.react(bool) in which bool can be left undefined (it will be assumed as true) or can be a boolean (SeatHolder will not react on focus events when false).
For support, remarks and requests please mail me at paul.engel@holder.nl.
This Javascript library depends on:
jQuery
http://jquery.com
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