How do I auto-hide placeholder text upon focus using css or jquery?

Question

This is done automatically for every browser except Chrome.

I\'m guessing I have to specifically target Chrome.

Any solutio

Answer 1

To further refine Wallace Sidhrée's code sample:

$(function()
{  
      $('input').focusin(function()
      {
        input = $(this);
        input.data('place-holder-text', input.attr('placeholder'))
        input.attr('placeholder', '');
      });

      $('input').focusout(function()
      {
          input = $(this);
          input.attr('placeholder', input.data('place-holder-text'));
      });
})

This ensures that each input stores the correct placeholder text in the data attribute.

See a working example here in jsFiddle.