how to use HTML5 placeholder attribute with backward-compatibility in mind?

Question

I\'d like to use HTML5\'s placeholder attribute (You can see it in cation in the newsletter at Thought Results). But when I use older browsers, of course, they don\'t render

Answer 1

@marcgg wrote a great JQuery placeholder plugin that basically replicates the placeholder functionality for those browsers that don't support it.

https://github.com/marcgg/Simple-Placeholder

I searched through a lot of placeholder plugins before settling on this one and it works great so far. Originally found it in response to this similar question:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5120257/what-is-the-best-html5-placeholder-like-jquery-plugin-out-there