Override native IE10+ placeholder behavior, disappearing text on focus

[danielHalan]

modern IE native placeholder feature clears the text on Focus, which isnt so good when using JS to pre-select a textbox.

Is there a way to override this behavior? if not, would be a nice feature.

[mikealmond]

👍 I'd love to see this as well.

[jonathantower]

👍 Yes, this would be very helpful. Anyone managed to do this already?

[amerikan]

Seems like it's a bug in IE10:

• http://stackoverflow.com/a/16138480
• https://twitter.com/hakanson/status/479697588908613632

I can see this happening in IE 10 for their native placeholder implementation. Haven't tried it in IE11 yet.

What can be done is to force IE10 to actually use the plugin's functionality even though it supports it natively already. We would have to determine when a browser is IE 10.

[danielHalan]

Can verify that the bug still persists in latest IE11 (11.0.9600.17498)

[amerikan]

@danielHalan hmm. well we can add a option something like includeKeepOnFocus: true (the name probably needs more thought). With this option we can force IE 10/11 to use the plugin.

We need to find out how to determine if the user's browser is IE 10 or 11 to be able to do it. It would be best to determine it by using feature detection rather than by sniffing the browser's user agent. Any ideas?

[amerikan]

I'm going to say this is related to #92

[gabskoro]

Argh, I need this feature now :)

[amerikan]

Closing, duplicate of #92