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Use familiar widgets Usability Guideline

Description

Use widgets that are familiar to your users, and employ them in their commonly used manner. Don’t use onclick to change text box behavior.

Help

Remove the event handler from the text field, unless it still behaves the way users expect.

Applicable standards

Note: The guidelines.usability.gov website has been down since July 2020, although www.usability.gov is still operating and the PDF version of the guidelines is still available.

Change history

  • 5.8 Mar 2015 Fixed false positive on do nothing handlers.
  • 1.0 Feb 2007 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: UseGov13.10