# Insert placeholder text in post while uploading

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/insert-placeholder-text-in-post-while-uploading/32682>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** uploads\
**Created:** [29 Agosto, 2015 15:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/insert-placeholder-text-in-post-while-uploading/32682 "2015-08-29T15:12:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\
**Post date:** [29 Agosto, 2015 15:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/insert-placeholder-text-in-post-while-uploading/32682/1 "2015-08-29T15:12:44Z")

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GitHub’s upload dialog has a handy placeholder in the editor while your upload is being processed:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/1/015af7b242dd67c55fb68c467986788bbe98b7c7.png) 

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/0/409c6df5bb284e90ce85c7de21fd446a5232f068.png) 

In Discourse I tend to take my fingers off the keyboard as long as I’m downloading something, because the download link will be inserted wherever my cursor is at the time.

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