Is it possible for a placeholder or popup help to be specified such as {$variable:placeholder "placeholder content"} or {$variable:help "popup help text"}? We are using the text box to input lat/long co-ordinates or what3words. It would be nice to be able to provide some help when the text box opens as our users are novices.
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#117280 request enhancement to templates having input variables
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Latest post by noelada on Monday, 25 August 2025 22:48 BST
Monday, 04 August 2025 03:30 BST
Sunday, 10 August 2025 11:03 BST
I will look into this. It should be possible to implement the placeholder, but the "help" option might have to be descriptive text below the input field rather than a tooltip.
Ryan Demmer
Lead Developer / CEO / CTO
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Monday, 11 August 2025 00:43 BST
Thank you Ryan. I think help text in the descriptive area below the text box would be preferable to placeholder because we could (hopefully) provide more words of help text. Is it possible for the Values box to open with enough space to fit whatever help text is specified? i.e If the help text would take 4 lines to fit, could the values box open with enough depth to fit the 4 lines?.
The ability to create these Values templates is a great feature of JCE. Thank you.
Noel.
Tuesday, 12 August 2025 15:20 BST
Please try JCE Pro 2.9.90 Beta - https://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/downloads/editor/pro/development
You can add descriptive text to be show below the input box by including it after the label, seperated by a | character. eg:
{$variable|Some descriptive text}
Ryan Demmer
Lead Developer / CEO / CTO
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Wednesday, 13 August 2025 19:49 BST
Please try JCE Pro 2.9.90 Beta 8 - https://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/downloads/editor/pro/development
Clear your browser cache after install.
Ryan Demmer
Lead Developer / CEO / CTO
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Wednesday, 13 August 2025 22:37 BST
It is working well now. Thank you very much.
Noel.
Monday, 25 August 2025 10:40 BST
I have increased the width of the dialog slightly in JCE Pro 2.9.90 RC - Please try JCE Pro 2.9.90 RC1 - https://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/downloads/editor/pro/development
Ryan Demmer
Lead Developer / CEO / CTO
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Monday, 25 August 2025 22:48 BST
Hi Ryan,
Many thanks for the extra width. Excellent.
Noel.
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