jQuery FormLabels Plugin

The idea of using captions on form input boxes is not new, but all previous methods of providing this functionality have a few disadvantages. The jQuery FormLabels Plugin is a result of working with hundreds of different clients, sites, and especially forms. Every form is different, so building a uniform label generator was not an easy task. The plugin has a few advantages over plugins and “tricks” with similar functionality:

• Form label has almost the same styling as its “parent” input element
• Labels on password input boxes look like text, not asterisks
• Accurate label’s position regardless of size and other properties of input box
• Simplicity: no need to change a form’s markup or CSS in order to get the labels work
• Multiple options and methods including safemode option for legacy browsers
• Animation
• Cross-Browser support