Labels, placeholders, and mobile friendly forms

- [Instructor] Here we're going to examine…techniques for adapting form inputs…to mobile device-specific challenges.…I'm talking about effective use of labels,…effective use of placeholders,…and displaying, hiding, or changing…how inputs are displayed for mobile devices.…Now, throughout this course I've emphasized…and built into practically everything…adding a label to an element, to a form input.…Why is that?…Let's take a look.…

If I'm in a form and I want to activate, for example,…this input, the best time to reach you,…I can click on the label.…And did you notice that the insertion point…jumped right to…the time?…If I realize I haven't added the required phone input,…I don't have to actually have the dexterity…to get my cursor inside the input itself.…I can type on the label.…And as long as labels have been…appropriately connected to an input,…it's easy to make a selection…just by clicking on a label.…

How does that play out in mobile devices?…There are two schools of thought.…One is that it does make it easier for mobile users…