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comments: true
date: 2011-05-24 19:35:27
layout: post
slug: jquery-placeholder-plugin-polyfill
title: jQuery placeholder plugin/polyfill
wordpress_id: 2759
categories:
- Web Development
tag:
- CSS
- Forms
- JavaScript
- jQuery
- UI
---

My good friend, ex-colleague and all round awesome dude [Dan Bentley](http://twitter.com/dan_bentley) has made a great little [jQuery placeholder plugin](https://github.com/danbentley/placeholder) which polyfills older browsers that don't support the new HTML5 form attribute `placeholder`.

Link: [https://github.com/danbentley/placeholder](https://github.com/danbentley/placeholder)

Now I'll readily admit that Dan has done 99% of the work here, but it has been something of a joint project in that:





  * I actually made him build it cos he's amazing at JS and I needed it.


  * I've added a tiny, tiny bit of CSS/UI behaviour.



There's my 1%.

Anyway, follow [the project on GitHub](https://github.com/danbentley/placeholder), follow [Dan on Twitter](http://twitter.com/dan_bentley) [and GitHub](https://github.com/danbentley/) and let us know if you use it!