vahidahmad / superplaceholder.js

⚡Super charge your input placeholders

superplaceholder.js

Super charge your input placeholders

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DEMO • Installation • Usage

superplaceholder.js is a library to bring your input placeholders to life by cycling multiple instructions in a single input placeholder.

Installation

superplaceholder.js is less than 1KB minified & gzipped.

• Bower: bower install superplaceholder
• NPM: npm install superplaceholder
• Download zip.

Note: superplaceholder.js supports AMD and commonJS module pattern out of the box.

Usage

Syntax

superplaceholder({
	el: <target_input_element>,
	sentences: <array_of_texts>,
	options: {} // optional customizable parameters
});

Basic

superplaceholder({
	el: document.querySelector('input'),
	sentences: [ 'Something to show', 'Another thing to show']
});

Customization

Pass an optional options object for custom settings.

superplaceholder({
	el: document.querySelector('input'),
	sentences: [ 'Something to show', 'Another thing to show'],
	options: {
		// delay between letters (in milliseconds)
		letterDelay: 100, // milliseconds
		// delay between sentences (in milliseconds)
		sentenceDelay: 1000,
		// should start on input focus. Set false to autostart
		startOnFocus: true,
		// loop through passed sentences
		loop: false,
		// Initially shuffle the passed sentences
		shuffle: false,
		// Show cursor or not. Shows by default
		showCursor: true,
		// String to show as cursor
		cursor: '|'
	}
});

Browser Support

superplaceholder.js works best on latest versions of Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari and Chrome mobile.

For all non-supported browsers, the library will graceful degradate without any explicit handling in your code.

Contributing

Interested in contributing features and fixes?

Read more on contributing.

Changelog

See the Changelog.

License

Copyright (c) 2016 Kushagra Gour, http://kushagragour.in This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.