Title: Gravity Forms &#8211; Placeholders add-on
Author: neojp
Published: <strong>C'hwevrer 3, 2012</strong>
Last modified: Gouere 2, 2012

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Gravity Forms – Placeholders add-on

 By [neojp](https://profiles.wordpress.org/neojp/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/gravity-forms-placeholders.1.2.1.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/gravity-forms-placeholders/#installation)
 * [Development](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/gravity-forms-placeholders/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gravity-forms-placeholders/)

## Description

Adds HTML5 placeholder support to the Gravity Forms plugin copying the Field’s label
as the placeholder and hidding it. Javascript fallback is used for old browsers 
that don’t support the HTML5 placeholder attribute.

You can find the source code at the GitHub repository, forks and pull requests are
welcomed.
 http://github.com/neojp/gravity-forms-placeholders/

### GitHub source code

You can find the source code at the GitHub repository, forks and pull requests are
welcomed.
 http://github.com/neojp/gravity-forms-placeholders/

## Installation

 1. Upload all files to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in the WordPress Admin Panel
 3. Add the CSS class `gplaceholder` to text fields or textareas as needed, you can
    also add it to the form itself to enable this feature to all fields within it.

## FAQ

  Installation Instructions

 1. Upload all files to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in the WordPress Admin Panel
 3. Add the CSS class `gplaceholder` to text fields or textareas as needed, you can
    also add it to the form itself to enable this feature to all fields within it.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Gravity Forms – Placeholders add-on” is open source software. The following people
have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ neojp ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/neojp/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gravity-forms-placeholders/),
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## Changelog

#### 1.2.1

 * Fix IE7 member not found error

#### 1.2

 * Fix the enqueuing urls of Javascript files when using a Symlink as the plugins
   directory

#### 1.1.1

 * Rename variable url to jquery_placeholder_url

#### 1.1

 * Rename gf.placeholders.js.php to gf.placeholders.js
 * Append a jquery.placeholder.js url as a js variable on the tag instead of using
   php on gf.placeholders.js.php – improves performance by using static files
 * Always request a cached version of jquery.placeholder-1.0.1.js
 * Remove Modernizr support, use our simpler conditional – js performance improvement
 * Improved input and textarea filtering, added support for new HTML5 input types,
   eg. email, url, tel
 * Improved Javascript performance

#### 1.0

 * Initial version.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2.1**
 *  Last updated **8 years ago**
 *  Active installations **2,000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.4.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gravity-forms-placeholders/)
 * Tags
 * [forms](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/forms/)[gravity](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gravity/)
   [GravityForms](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gravityforms/)[HTML5](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/html5/)
   [placeholders](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/placeholders/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/gravity-forms-placeholders/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.9 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ neojp ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/neojp/)

## Support

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