Is this possible to achieve without javascript/jQuery?
I currently have a login template with the input fields as:
<input id="username" type="text" name"username" placeholder="username" autofocus>
I was wondering if there was a way when the user clicked their mouse on the field to type the placeholder text would disappear without using javascript if possible? Before this i was just using value and echoing the variables out into the fields but currently experimenting with HTML 5 and CSS3.
Thanks.
New browsers have a native way to do this. And if supported, you don't have to do anything.
With older browsers you do need to use javascript.
Edit: When using new features on old browsers its called Pollyfills. Here is a nice list with a lot of pollyfills that can be used together with Modernizer, that in turn can detect this features.
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I want to have a password input as simple as the HTML regular type="password" input (i.e.,
<input type="password" id="password_field">). Are there any built in styles (maybe like 'required') that does that? If not how can I have an obfuscated text field?
I was thinking perhaps I could use the HTML widget and add it there but I am not sure how to access the input's value within the HTML widget. I can imagine it can be done with jQuery, but I do not want to use it.
Code inside the onAttach event handler of your TextBox widget:
widget.getElement().children[1].setAttribute("type", "password");
widget.getElement().children[1].setAttribute("id", "password_field");
This is happening on an asp.net webforms application, using Chrome Version 72.0.3626.109 (Official Build) (64-bit).
The site is password-protected. The user logs in with a username and password. After a successful login the user is redirected to the "Loan Search" page. The Loan Search page contains a handful of text inputs.
The problem is Chrome will autofill my username into one of the text inputs (see image). "tregan" is the username I entered into the login page.
Chrome always selects this particular text input to autofill the username ("Contact Mailing Address"). This is happening to myself and several dozen other users of our web site.
Any idea why Chrome is doing this autofill, and is there anything I can do to prevent it? I cleared my Chrome autofill cache, but that did not fix the problem.
The answer is to add an invisible text input to the asp.net form called "username".
Several years ago we were having the same problem with a different input. The answer was to add an invisible input of type "password", as explained in this SO answer, scroll down to the phrase "It is so simple and tricky...":
Disabling Chrome Autofill
Below is the complete fix, I added these two elements inside the form element in our site's master page. Per #Jeff_Mergler's comment below, put these inputs at the top of your form tag:
<input type="text" id="username" style="width:0;height:0;visibility:hidden;position:absolute;left:0;top:0" />
<input type="password" style="width:0;height:0;visibility:hidden;position:absolute;left:0;top:0" />
Some more ways to try to workaround this:
Add autocomplete="off" to the <form> and/or to the <input>
Change the field's name/id
to something that does not have "name" or "user" in it
If it is not already inside <form> wrap the element with empty <form> tag
Randomize the name attribute of the input, or use data-name instead of name. You'll have to change the code that process the data accordingly.
Also I think it'll help to report this issue to Google via ⋮→Help→Report an issue (or Alt+Shift+I) to encourage them to fix these issues.
I was facing the same issue, i found a fix by wrapping my div inside a form tag and added a property autocomplete="off" in the form tag.
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Same here. This needs to be resolved by chrome. This is just dumb to have to add tags around textboxes. Also, quick tip to anyone needing to add form tag without having to re-do your CSS. Add "display:contents;" to the form. It will act as if its not even there.
I'm looking to update our website and have the checkout form fields using labels inside the fields. I've read on various blogs this simple idea has some downfalls, such as the user forgetting what he/she was typing in that box in the first place.
So I stumbled across firebox.com checkout, which also uses infield top aligned labels, nullifying the above problem. Also, on input, there are regular labels inside the field.
Has this idea/solution been previously documented? I would prefer not to go through the source code of this site if there is a working example out there already!
Here is a screenshot of what I'm looking to do, some fields have been inputted already to show the result before and after.
Google Material design is what I think you are looking specially the part of the text fields.
No need to look through the code:
https://material.io/guidelines/components/text-fields.html#
Here you can see all available options:
https://getmdl.io/components/index.html#textfields-section
Hope it helps,
André
What You are looking at is a sample of Google's Material Design components. The material design framework is meant to be part of AngularJS , but there are multiple CSS ways of achieving the same effects.
Here You can find a variant for Your task at hand.
And it uses generic markup:
<form>
<h1>Material Design Text Input With No Extra Markup</h1>
<input placeholder="Username" type="text" required="">
<input placeholder="Password" type="password" required="">
<button>Submit</button>
</form>
I couldn't find anything in the angularjs docs, nor online, about this specific aspect of form validation. You know when someone writes something in an input field (example: name, phone number, email etc.), and then there is a green checkmark that appears? Or an X that appears implying it's wrong, incomplete etc.
So, I have those images in my folder and ready for use in either situation. Problem is, I can't find the documentation to properly achieve what I would like to achieve. I am thinking that angularjs would be the solution to use, as the rest of my code in is angular.
Since this is angularjs, the only post and documentation that presented a viable option (which does not work for a few reasons) are the following options:
How to put an image in div with CSS?
https://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial/step_09
I was thinking of using CSS to trick the browser into making the one or the other image appear as it validates. I thought it might force the image in my other div to appear, but to no avail.
For example, in this CSS, I tried this:
.ng-valid.ng-dirty .div.test{
border-color: green;
content:url(http://example.com/image);
}
Using this in my HTML:
<div class="test">
<label style="float:left">by:</label>
<input class="form-control controltwo" required ng-model="reviewCtrl.review.author" name="email" id="email" type="email" style="width:350px;" placeholder="Email Address"/>
</div>
As I said before, I am trying to achieve something using angularjs. As CSS can be used for styling, it cannot be tricked into being a styling option and a complex validator. I've tried a few tricks as show on the links, but they don't work. As for the second link, it just isn't made for this purpose, and considering they are made only for filters and images, the docs for the filters don't help a bit.
A simple way of achieving what you want is to look in to the $valid or $invalid properties of your form control.
For example, to show a small message when the email is invalid, you would put this element in your markup.
<div ng-show='reviewForm.email.$dirty && reviewForm.email.$invalid'>Invalid Email</div>
Where reviewForm is the name of your form, and email is the name of your input control.
Here is a plunkr demonstrating this: http://plnkr.co/edit/tUuToy99xjfMhbyMd3eV
You can replace the element with whatever else you want
You can do this with ng-show, ng-src and ng-model depending on what you're validating.
https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngModel
https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngShow
https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngSrc
The example under ng-model:text shows pretty much what you want. If you're not using forms, you should be able to use ng-change to fire off a check and change the image to the appropriate one.
https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/input/input%5Btext%5D
If ng-show watches the $valid attribute of the field in question you can hide the check mark when validation is false, and show it when true. You can flip the logic if you want an X.
I notice this as a frequent problem on many wbesites, even those of large corporations, so as a web developer applying for jobs, I think, I should know how to fix this.
Basically, for example, a username field will say "Username" until you click it to type in your username, at which time it should clear itself of the text "Username." But in most cases, it doesn't, and you end up typing in the middle of that pre-existing text.
I've looked this up, and the best solution I found was a 30+ line set of Javascript functions which did exactly what you'd expect: set up a system that clears the default value away when a user clicks on the field, and also puts it back when they click away so long as they hadn't entered anything.
But that's not really what I was looking for, because I already knew how to do that.
I feel like by now, with HTML5 and all, there should be a simpler fix to this. And not just a reduction of the JavaScript to a shorter jQuery script. I mean more of an embedded, inherent fix.
Does anyone know of any ways to stop this phenomenon from happening?
Simply use HTML5 placeholder attribute
<input type="text" placeholder="Whatever" />
Fiddle
Cross Browser Info :
Some Firefox versions clear the placeholder text on click of text box and Chrome clears it after the user starts typing, but later version of Firefox acts like chrome, it clears the placeholder text as the user starts typing in the input box.
You can use the HTML5 placeholder attribute http://www.w3schools.com/html5/att_input_placeholder.asp
Modern browsers now support the placeholder attribute for forms, which let you do just what your asking
Check out
http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/cross-browser-html5-placeholder-text
For a article using modenizr for cross browser compatibility
just use the HTML5 placeholder attribute.
<input type="text" placeholder="Username" />
This will obviosuly not be completely cross browser compatible so for that you will still need the old Javascript / jQuery fixes.