Which browsers support placeholders

This is the easy part. For modern browsers, all we have to do is start using the placeholder attribute, and everything will work automatically. So this:. As I said earlier, as of the time of this writing, placeholder text is supported by Firefox 3. Besides, browser sniffing is SO 20th century. This way, as soon as IE or Opera decide to come join the fun, placeholders on your site will just magically work without any additional help from us.

Otherwise, the entire group would be ignored by all browser. Generally, if there is an invalid pseudo-element or pseudo-class within in a chain or group of selectors, the whole selector list is invalid.

If a pseudo-element but not pseudo-class has a -webkit- prefix, As of Firefox 63, Blink, Webkit and Gecko browsers assume it is valid, not invalidating the selector list. Being able to style placeholders is awesome. When your form relies purely on placeholder instructions without labels, it's very harmful to accessibility. Accessibility is not only important to make your website accessible for everyone, but it's also helpful for creating a better user experience.

Here's a really awesome article about the concerns of using placeholders only without any labels. Below are the top 3 points:. IE10 supports this as a pseudo class, rather than an element. Everyone else has implemented a pseudo element. The ::placeholder pseudo element or a pseudo class, in some cases, depending on the browser implementation allows you to style the placeholder text of a form element.

As in, the text set with the placeholder attribute:. This is because, by default, all placeholders in Firefox have an opacity value applied to them, so in order to fix this we need to reset that value:. A telephone input field with a placeholder text:,The numbers in the table specify the first browser version that fully supports the attribute.

The placeholder attribute specifies a short hint that describes the expected value of an input field e. Placeholder text typically has a lighter color treatment to indicate that it is a suggestion for what kind of input will be valid, and is not actual input of any kind.

This will make it difficult for some people to determine which content has been entered, and which content is placeholder text. Placeholder text typically has a lighter color treatment to indicate that it is a suggestion for what kind of input will be valid, and is not actual input of any kind.

It is important to ensure that the contrast ratio between the color of the placeholder text and the background of the input is high enough that people experiencing low vision conditions will be able to read it while also making sure there is enough of a difference between the placeholder text and input text color that users do not mistake the placeholder for inputed data. Color contrast ratio is determined by comparing the luminosity of the placeholder text and the input background color values.

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