HTML5 placeholder attribute and i18n proposal

Rails
1

This was filed as:
https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/6080-i18n-support-for-html5-placeholder-attribute
and Aditya S. suggsted I post to the list about it

Currently, Rails’ I18n system automatically looks up localized text for
tags. It would be nice if it did something similar for the HTML5
placeholder attribute.

Your en.yml file would like this:

helpers:
placeholder:
person:
first_name: “John”
last_name: “Doe”

Your ERB would look the same:
<%= f.text_field :first_name %>

Your HTML would look like this:

Currently, you have to clutter up your markup like so:
<%= f.text_field :first_name, :placeholder =>
t(‘helpers.placeholder.person.first_name’) %>

Paul

2

On 29 Nov 2010, at 23:31, Paul Schreiber wrote:

Currently, you have to clutter up your markup like so:
<%= f.text_field :first_name, :placeholder =>
t(‘helpers.placeholder.person.first_name’) %>

Should be fairly trivial to add this yourself:

  • alias the to_input_field_tag from Rails to to_input_field_tag_old
    (it’s in the InstanceTagMethods module of Rails if I recall correctly)
  • define your own to_input_field_tag
  • all that method needs to do is merge the
    I18n.t(“helpers.placeholder.#{object_name}.#{method_name}”) value into
    the options hash as :placeholder and then call the aliassed
    to_input_field_tag_old

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

3

I would encourage you to implement it and submit a patch following the
processes outlined in the contributors guide:

https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/sending-patches

It seems a good idea to me and creating a ticket and a patch for the
feature is the best way to get the Rails Core team to consider it in
detail.

Cheers,
Walter

P.S. - plus if it gets accepted, you have a nice little bragging right
for “I have contributed to the source code for Rails”

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Peter De Berdt

4

On Nov 30, 10:51am, Peter De Berdt [email protected] wrote:

Should be fairly trivial to add this yourself:

  • alias the to_input_field_tag from Rails to to_input_field_tag_old
    (it’s in the InstanceTagMethods module of Rails if I recall correctly)
  • define your own to_input_field_tag
  • all that method needs to do is merge the
    I18n.t(“helpers.placeholder.#{object_name}.#{method_name}”) value into
    the options hash as :placeholder and then call the aliassed
    to_input_field_tag_old

Thanks for the pointer.

I submitted a patch to to_input_field_tag and attached it to the
ticket:
<Tickets - Ruby on Rails - rails
6080>

Paul