Placeholder text on input

[Tralisk]

Looking to put placeholder text in your inputs? ….

So, i’m no technical genius so i don’t have a solution that adds a nice new “placeholder” text entry field in the field manager, but below is what i did to get it working on fields using the title attribute as the placeholder text, which is what i wanted.

As usual, this is probably an update to the core which will be overwritten on updates so be careful . . .

In plugins/user-meta/views/generateField.php around line 343 you have the start of the field value builder:

“value” => isset($field[‘field_value’]) ? $field[‘field_value’] : “”,
“label” => $fieldTitle,
“readonly” => !empty($fieldReadOnly) ? $fieldReadOnly : “”,
“disabled” => !empty($isDisabled) ? true : false,
“id” => $inputID,
“class” => $class,
“style” => @$inputStyle ? $inputStyle : “”,
“maxlength” => $maxlength,
“option_after” => isset($option_after) ? $option_after : “”,
“by_key” => $by_key,
“label_id” => $labelID,
“label_class” => $label_class,
“onblur” => isset($onBlur) ? $onBlur : “”,
“combind” => isset($combind) ? $combind : false,
“before” => $fieldBefore,
“placeholder” => $fieldTitle,
“after” => $fieldAfter,
//”enclose” => ! empty( $enclose ) ? $enclose : false,
), $fieldOptions );
}

Above i have added “placeholder” => $fieldTitle, where i stole the $fieldtitle from the “label” in the first instance.

So thats how to do it, just took a while to find that this is where the attributes were being built, and i should have paid attention to Dreamweaver not allowing me to modify the plugin files while i was testing . . . make the change using WP editor if possible.

I could probably develop an entry box into the admin, but i can’t be bothered and it is an update to a core file, so will leave it for the feature requests, but this will work for me atleast for now.

• This topic was modified 10 years, 9 months ago by Tralisk. Reason: adding method

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