JQuery Super Labels Plugin

31 points by remybach 14 years ago | 16 comments

This plugin positions your labels on top of your form fields (similiar visually to placeholder) and makes the label slide across the field when gaining focus and fade out when a value is entered.

phzbOx 14 years ago |

It's cute but too much distracting IMO. I prefer to have it fade a little bit on focus and disappear on writing.

remybach 14 years ago | |

There's an option to do that:

$('form').superLabels({ slide:false });

5h 14 years ago |

Seems OTT to me,

I generally use normal boring labels, then modernizer to detect if the browser supports placeholders, if so hide the labels and add placeholders to the attributes

remybach 14 years ago | |

That's not what placeholders are meant to be used for though (see here: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...).

This plugin doesn't replace (true) placeholder functionality, so I suppose it's the same as what you're doing except more semantic.

remybach 14 years ago | |

Oh, also... once you're in the field, the placeholder disappears and you have no idea what you were meant to type (which is why the plugin slides to the side by default).

flixic 14 years ago | | |

No. Placeholders stay visible until user starts typing. That is, empty focused field still has visible placeholder.

jonknee 14 years ago |

FWIW, Safari and Chrome both keep placeholder text there like this plug-in does (without the animation). It'd be nice to get FireFox on board.

Keithamus 14 years ago | |

Yes, in -webkit- browsers you can achieve the same effect with this CSS:

        &::-webkit-input-placeholder {
            -webkit-transition: text-indent 200ms ease-in-out;
            visibility: visible !important;
        }

        &:focus::-webkit-input-placeholder {
            text-indent: 115px; /* Change to width of input */
        }

If only you could do the same for Firefox...

btucker 14 years ago | | |

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/:-moz-placeholder

remybach 14 years ago | |

I had looked into doing this with pure CSS, but I hit a roadblock. I can't remember what it was, but it may have been the Firefox thing mentioned. Would be cool to add a css file that does the same to the project when the support is there though.

egze 14 years ago |

Should probably use stop() before animating or else there's a funny effect if I click the fields back and forth really fast.

remybach 14 years ago | |

Hmmm... not quite a real-world scenario though. I like to consider it a quirky easter-egg :)

david_a_r_kemp 14 years ago |

how do you get the labels back again? sometimes my browser or password manager fills in the wrong fields, and, once there's something in the fields, there's no labels.

remybach 14 years ago | |

Yeah, I've got an issue open on github for this. I'll fix it when I get the chance. Thanks :)

&::-webkit-input-placeholder { -webkit-transition: text-indent 200ms ease-in-out; visibility: visible !important; } &:focus::-webkit-input-placeholder { text-indent: 115px; /* Change to width of input */ }