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[Russell Boyatt <1887982@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kristina - thanks very much for considering the issue.  I spoke again to
the member of staff here who raised the issue; I think they and the
students have just been confused by the change of behaviour.

I think until recently they thought new blocks would have a block
descriptor as the title, e.g. "embedded media".  I must admit I haven't
gone back to retest though!

Would you consider patches that made the title field required or somehow
nudged students to change the title from 'Placeholder'?  Don't worry if
not, we're just exploring ways to drive behaviour and avoid lots of
blocks with the placeholder title!

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1887982

Title:
  Swap placeholder text for placeholder attribute

Status in Mahara:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  When adding a new block to a Mahara page, the user is prompted to
  enter a 'block title'.

  The word 'placeholder' is present as the value of the input box.  This
  leads some students to have many blocks with a title of 'placeholder'.
  Here's an abbreviated fragment of the HTML...

  
  <input type="text" class="form-control text autofocus" name="title" value="Placeholder">

  Would it be better to have a blank 'value' and use the 'placeholder'
  attribute instead?  So the HTML fragment would be as follows...

  <input type="text" class="form-control text autofocus" name="title"
  value="" placeholder="Block title">

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