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Don’t Use The Placeholder Attribute

June 23, 2018

Eric Bailey takes a hardline position on <input placeholder>. You might be thinking, as I did: yeah, yeah I know the pitfalls. I’m capable of using placeholder responsibly. But when you look at all the negatives together:Can’t be automatically translated; Is oftentimes used in place of a label, lockin...

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Alternatives to Placeholder Text

December 16, 2016

Andrew Coyle on when to use <input placeholder>:Don’t use them as a label Don’t use them as a secondary label Don’t use them as example input Don’t use them as helper textWhich amounts to pretty much: “Don’t use them”. Notice there are no examples of good use cases, a...

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