Good point. Here's a link to the textarea element in the spec for reference: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-textarea-element

A made a test page the other day that could be easily turned into Modernizr.textarea:

http://miketaylr.com/code/html5-textarea-attribute-support.html

mike, do you know if support for these attributes is inconsistent between input and textarea in any browsers?

if support is identical, i'm not inclined to add this feature, but rather just document that fact.

I've yet to see a browser have input.placeholder and not textarea.placeholder. +1 on documenting that.

FWIW, I just got a bug report stating that Safari 4 supports @placeholder for inputs but not for textareas.

After investigating this using Multi Safari, I can verify that Safari 4.05 doesn’t support @placeholder for <textarea> elements: http://i.imgur.com/91zvs.png

Note that I did not only test by feature detection, I also tested an HTML document containing a text input (works), a password input (works), and a textarea (fails) with placeholder attributes.

So yeah, Modernizr should probably add a separate test.

Nice catch, Mathias.

Boooo. :(

the same inconsistency is present in opera 11 - Placeholder works on input but not on textareas

Version 11.01
Build 1190
Platform Linux