In-field labels

[Jan-Christoph Borchardt]

For the log in and registration forms, the labels should go in the
fields to make it more quickly recognizable.
Check this jQuery plugin:
`http://fuelyourcoding.com/scripts/infield/ <http://fuelyourcoding.com/scripts/infield/>`_

[Jan-Christoph Borchardt]

And in HTML5 of course you would use the placeholder="Username"
attribute. :)

[Christopher Allan Webber]

WHOA. We should totally placeholder= it up :)

Wonder how hard that is to do with wtforms...?

[Jan-Christoph Borchardt]

Actually, the HTML5 spec says:
»The placeholder attribute should not be used as an alternative to
a label.«
`http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-placeholder-attribute <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-placeholder-attribute>`_

So the jQuery plugin is still the best way to do that. I don't know
about its non-JS compatibility though. An issue for us was
Chromium's autofill feature colliding with it - having the info
filled in but the labels still displayed. We didn't look into a
solution yet as we still use the placeholder attribute for
ownCloud's log in form.

[Jef van Schendel]

I'm closing this bug, since it seems that the placeholder attribute
is not the right way to do this and I think that including and
using a jQuery plugin just for this is not necessary.

[Will Kahn-Greene]

The original url for this bug was ​http://bugs.foocorp.net/issues/484 .