Dear friends (and the ultimate forum friends, Hartley Sans and, of course, the invincible Larry Ullman)!
I was wondering why my elem.defaultValue code was pulling up a null value, I believe. I thought the elem.defaultValue would pull up the placeholder text for the HTML5 field. Is this not how it works?
Here is my code for the placeholder text:
<input type="email" name="email" id="email" placeholder="e.g. someone@server.com" required="required">
And here is my code for the defaultValue
function HTML5FieldCheck(id2, regExpToPassOn, errorMessage2) { alert("We are