Is it ok to have both a placholder and a title on an input tag?

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Is is a common practice to do that ? Or should I put informations linked to this input next to it ?

For example: <input type="text" title="You first, not your last name !" placeholder="Name"/>

Why to you post a complete external link to display a single line of code? — André, Mar 08 '13 at 13:28
@André So that you can see what it looks like. I think the end result is more important than the code here. — Benjamin Crouzier, Mar 08 '13 at 14:01

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 08 '13 at 13:01

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It's not a common practice, but I think it's not that bad, because in the title, which appears as a tooltip, you give additional information for the user once he enters the field using mouse pointer.

However, I think a better choice would be giving a field a label and use placeholder for descriptive text, so that it looks like:

Name: [ You first, not your last name ]

This way:

user won't loose the purpose of the field while being inside the field
it will work on touch devices the same way
it will not depend on using the mouse pointer

answered Mar 08 '13 at 13:01

Dominik Oslizlo

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I think that's a good advice. Placeholder shouldn't substitute a proper , it's a hint, a complement. Something like this, perhaps: http://jsfiddle.net/rhWGA/2/ Also, there's been some discussion about the title tag: http://blog.paciellogroup.com/2010/11/using-the-html-title-attribute/ – Ignacio Mar 08 '13 at 13:18

Is it ok to have both a placholder and a title on an input tag?

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