[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #23938: Placeholder attributes for input elements don't show in IE

Thu Apr 4 21:54:05 UTC 2013

#23938: Placeholder attributes for input elements don't show in IE
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 Reporter:  Ipstenu       |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  3.6
Component:  Post Formats  |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  major         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch     |
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Comment (by azaozz):

 Yeah, currently the .ie8 class is added on the <html> tag with
 [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-
 admin/includes/template.php#L1697 conditional comments]. For IE7 we load
 `ie.css`.

 We probably should switch to using the same code as the
 [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-includes/class-wp-admin-
 bar.php#L335 toolbar] for that. Even if we drop IE7 support soon, IE8 and
 9 will be around for quite some time and it's nice to be able to tweak the
 admin css for them.

 We can't hide the labels with `display: none;`, need to do it with the
 screen-reader-text class. Looking at all formats, only the Quote format
 fields seem to need visible labels. All the rest get a nice "helper text"
 above the fields and work well with or without the placeholders.

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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/23938#comment:6>
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