From 009c8c5f208fd5fd0ea0c44f81ee531946de70bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mottie <wowmotty@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 08:13:30 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Filter widget docs: add note about placeholder. Fixes #522.

---
 docs/example-widget-filter.html                   | 8 ++++++++
 js/jquery.tablesorter.widgets-filter-formatter.js | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/example-widget-filter.html b/docs/example-widget-filter.html
index 9bf507e6..c3cbc7c2 100644
--- a/docs/example-widget-filter.html
+++ b/docs/example-widget-filter.html
@@ -270,6 +270,14 @@ $(function(){
 
 		<h3><a href="#">Methods</a></h3>
 		<div>
+			<h3>Set Filter Placeholder Text</h3>
+			<blockquote>
+			Set a <code>data-placeholder</code> attribute on the associated table header with your desired placeholder text
+			<pre class="prettyprint lang-html">&lt;th data-placeholder=&quot;Enter Something&quot;&gt;Name&lt;/th&gt;</pre>
+			or, set the header cell's jQuery data
+			<pre class="prettyprint lang-javascript">$('.tablesorter th:eq(0)').data('placeholder', 'Search for...')</pre>
+			</blockquote>
+
 			<h3>filterReset</h3>
 			<blockquote>
 			Use the <code>filterReset</code> method to reset (clear) all of the current filters using this method
diff --git a/js/jquery.tablesorter.widgets-filter-formatter.js b/js/jquery.tablesorter.widgets-filter-formatter.js
index d23106e8..ba5ef586 100644
--- a/js/jquery.tablesorter.widgets-filter-formatter.js
+++ b/js/jquery.tablesorter.widgets-filter-formatter.js
@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ tsff = ts.filterFormatter = {
 			endOfDay : true,
 			// include ANY jQuery UI spinner options below
 
-			defaultDate : '', // ******************************** FIX THIS *******************************************
+			defaultDate : '',
 
 			changeMonth : true,
 			changeYear : true,