topic Re: Set Placeholder for simpleGeocoder in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Set Placeholder for simpleGeocoder

DavidRaijmakers — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:42:50 GMT

I have seen the examples and API Reference.

Only with an arcgisGeocoder it is possible to set an placeholder.

Not with the esri.dijit.geocoder:

var geocoder = new esri.dijit.Geocoder({
          map: map,
          autocomplete: true,
          esriGeocoder: {
            name: "Zoek plaats/straat",
   placeholder: "Zoek Straat/Plaats" NOT WORKING

          }
        },"search");

I also did some element inspector on Google Chrome. Does anyone know how to set the placeholder

<input aria-haspopup="true" id="search_input" tabindex="0" placeholder value="" autocomplete="off" type="text" data-dojo-attach-point="inputNode" data-dojo-attach-event="ondijitclick:_inputClick" role="textbox" style="">

Re: Set Placeholder for simpleGeocoder

KevinMacLeod1 — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:50:43 GMT

I have seen the examples and API Reference.

Only with an arcgisGeocoder it is possible to set an placeholder.

Not with the esri.dijit.geocoder:

var geocoder = new esri.dijit.Geocoder({
          map: map,
          autocomplete: true,
          esriGeocoder: {
            name: "Zoek plaats/straat",
   placeholder: "Zoek Straat/Plaats" NOT WORKING

          }
        },"search");

I also did some element inspector on Google Chrome. Does anyone know how to set the placeholder

<input aria-haspopup="true" id="search_input" tabindex="0" placeholder value="" autocomplete="off" type="text" data-dojo-attach-point="inputNode" data-dojo-attach-event="ondijitclick:_inputClick" role="textbox" style="">

Try putting it in "value". See the "whole enchilada" section on the GitHub page for this dijit https://github.com/Esri/geocoder-search-widget-js/blob/master/resources/media_wiki.txt

Note: we are waiting for a fix for using this dijit where the queried JSON field is something that is not 'SingleLineInput', e.g. Streets, as discussed in detail in the Sample Viewer thread.

Re: Set Placeholder for simpleGeocoder

derekswingley1 — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:33:53 GMT

The geocoder with suffix sample shows (among other things) custom placeholder text: http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/javascript/arcgis/jssamples/#sample/locator_suffix

The mistake in your code is that your using "esriGeocoder" instead of "arcgisGeocoder".

Re: Set Placeholder for simpleGeocoder

DavidRaijmakers — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:10:31 GMT

Yes but i dont want to use the arcgisGeocoder. i just want them to search on a street name. And that is , as far as i know, only possible with esriGeocoder. So my question is if it is possible to set an placeholder for a esriGeocoder