The HTML5 Placeholder Plugin simulates placeholder functionality for inputs and textareas, which is particularly handy in browsers that still need some work.
A MIGHTYminnow plugin.
Features
- No setup necessary, works immediately after installing
- Super lightweight, less than 3kb minified jQuery
- Automatically detects for placeholder support – no need for extra feature detection like Modernizr
- Based on Mathias Bynens’ widely popular and well tested polyfill – thanks Mathias!
How to use
This plugin creates and uses a placeholder() jQuery function, and invokes it for inputs and textareas. This happens automatically as soon as you install it. If for some crazy reason you would like to invoke it on other elements aside from inputs and textareas, you can do so with you own jQuery, like so:
jQuery('yourElement').placeholder()
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.