https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: Placeholder Text en Wed, 06 May 2026 13:23:31 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/placeholder-text#post-19021 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 04:51:25 +0000 AMurray 19021@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>It was just a guess on my part, perhaps not as easy as it sounded<br /> :-) </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/placeholder-text#post-19013 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 01:27:19 +0000 searchtransparency 19013@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Ok, thanks for the help. I tried finding the code that would need to be changed in order to get this to work, but with no success. Any one have an idea of where to find it? </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/placeholder-text#post-19009 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 04:51:26 +0000 AMurray 19009@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Yes, it seems Machform currently uses XHTML 1.0 Transitional.</p> <p>I just tried this, below - just testing in a section break and it works more or less the way described, (when you start typing in the field the placeholder disappears) rather than clicking in the box and it disappears.</p> <p><code>&lt;input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;fname&quot; placeholder=&quot;First name&quot;&gt;</code> into say, a section break and see that it behaves like you described.</p> <p>I expect therefore you could manually add the placeholder to your forms - probably you have to find the code in the database as the forms are created on the fly, and not stored as a standard webpage HTML file. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/placeholder-text#post-19006 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 00:41:48 +0000 octaviocorral 19006@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>its an HTML5 attribute. Hopefully Next machform upgrade should have support for this as well as HTML5 types. type="email" type="phone" type="number" </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/placeholder-text#post-19005 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 23:07:23 +0000 searchtransparency 19005@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Placeholder text disappears when the user clicks into the text box. Default Value does not. I need something that does.</p> <p>Placeholder markup example: placeholder="Enter Your First Name"</p> <p>Thanks! </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/placeholder-text#post-19001 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 05:24:39 +0000 AMurray 19001@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I'm not sure what you mean by place-holder text. Do you mean "default value" ? There is a default value box in the field properties pane. Just fill that in and it will show in the area box or text box field.</p> <p>If that's not what you mean, please elaborate. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/placeholder-text#post-18998 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 05:01:44 +0000 searchtransparency 18998@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Have any solutions to easily using placeholder text as an alternative to label text for both text fields and text areas been found yet?</p> <p>Thanks! </p>