jQuery FormLabels 1.0 Released

Posted in BLOG on June 25, 2010 at 9:55 PM

My previous article about jQuery FormLabels 1.0RC2 was very popular (>2000 visits daily – more than on any other publication I have ever had) and I’ve got tons of feedback. I would like to thank all people who visited my site, left a comment, or retweeted the page. Big thanks for their comments to:

• Ionut Staicu
• Alex Hall
• Ferry Mulyono
• Alexander Kirk

The new release 1.0 doesn’t have too many visual changes, but it does have a few very important structured modifications though:

• depending on which element is a parent element, script creates formLabels either as spans or labels
• new option ‘semantic’. If true, then plugin renders label tag before input box (works only if labelParent:’form’) (suggested by Alex Hall)
• ‘labelParent’ option supports any element on the page (suggested by Ferry Mulyono), but labelParent: ‘form’ puts labels into closest form. Default value has been changed to ‘form’, which I think more reasonable than body tag
• changed logic for label’s background detection in Firefox
• fixed problem with blur event (formLabel did not disappear on autocomplete blur)
• new demo

Go to the jQuery FormLabels Plugin page to see the demo and download all necessary files