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Re: Placeholder text in forms for Priority 3

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From: ben morrison
Date: Aug 8, 2008 6:40AM

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Dan Conley < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Is having something in the box ok, or does that cause more problems now?
> When I first started developing our site I included them, but now I'm
> thinking that perhaps I should remove it all.
>

Personally, I think that empty is best.

If the design requires that there is text in an input field, then you
can always use JS for this.



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Ben Morrison