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jQuery Placeholder

Enables flexible placeholders that are simple to style and modify.

It modifies the input elements by wrapping them in a container that holds the input element, as well as a span tag containing the placeholder text. If something is entered into the textbox, the placeholder text is hidden, if the text is removed the placeholder is restored.

##Example usage

HTML

<input type="text" id="firstName" name="firstName" placeholder="Mike" />

<!-- Gets converted to: -->
<span class="input-holder">
  <input type="text" id="firstName" name="firstName" />
  <span class="input-default">Mike</span>
</span>

jQuery

$('input').placeholder();

CSS

Since input-holder and input-default classes are added to the span tags you can style them with something similar to:

.input-holder {
  position: relative;
}

.input-default {
  color: #ccc;
  position: absolute;
  top: 1px;
  left: 5px;
}

Options

$('input').placeholder({
  clearOnFocus: true //default: false. When enabled, it will clear the text when the element is focused on
});