[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress] #5184: creating a placeholder on drop down lists on profiles

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#5184: creating a placeholder on drop down lists on profiles
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 Reporter:  haykayltduk  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  2.0
Component:  XProfile     |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch  |
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Changes (by boonebgorges):

 * milestone:  1.9 => 2.0


Comment:

 5184.patch updates full-patch.php to do the following:

 - actually display the saved placeholder text when editing the field (this
 hadn't been included in the original patch)
 - format as an svn patch so we can see highlighting in trac

 I think the basic functionality is good here, but there are a couple areas
 of concern for me.

 1. IMO, the UI needs some rethinking. Maybe this is my technical knowledge
 peeking through, but the word "placeholder" to me denotes the greyed-out
 text that appears in a text field before you start typing, like the HTML5
 placeholder element. What you're proposing here is different from that
 (though it could overlap by expanding the patch a bit). It feels to me
 like the "placeholder" option should appear alongside the other options in
 the sortable list. For one thing, this'd make it possible to put the null-
 option somewhere other than the top of the list. For another, it'd
 highlight the fact that the null-option is *just another option*, but it
 so happens that it has a null value. I already suggested having a more
 robust [Advanced] tab in my comment above, but if that's too heavy a lift,
 then maybe another set of radio buttons for "empty value", like we have
 for "default value".

 2. I don't think the null option makes sense for checkbox fields.

 3. Could/should this be expanded to support the 'placeholder' attribute
 for text fields? Maybe it's a subject for a different ticket.

 Let's try to get this together for 2.0.

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