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IE 7-8 Forms have the placeholder data submitted as a value #2

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serby opened this issue Sep 12, 2011 · 0 comments

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serby commented Sep 12, 2011

This is when using $("input[placholder]").placeholder() to bring placeholder functionality to old IE.

If you don't change a input the placeholder value will be submitted.

To fix this the parent form should be found in IE and on submit clear the value if it is the same as the placeholder text

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