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16304	Forms Need HTML5 'placeholder' attribute	rich@…	nobody	"HTML5 introduces a 'placeholder' attribute to form inputs, providing a text hint which disappears when the user highlights it, which greatly improves the UX of a page.

To do this in Django currently, you have to do something like:

comment = forms.CharField(max_length=200, widget=forms.TextInput({ ""placeholder"": ""Text!""}))

However, to do this with a ModelForm is much more complicated: http://bitkickers.blogspot.com/2010/09/django-html5-input-placeholders.html

I suggest that there should be an easier way to set placeholder text in form fields and model form fields:

comment = forms.CharField(max_length=200, placeholder=""Text!"")

(This would also be a good starting point for other new HTML5 input elements, such as 'required' and 'email', but those should be separate tickets. The code would be very similar though.)
What do you think?
"	New feature	new	Forms	1.3	Normal		forms, placeholder, html5		Unreviewed	0			0	1	1