# 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:** [2015 年 8 月 29 日午後 3:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/insert-placeholder-text-in-post-while-uploading/32682 "2015-08-29T15:12:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\
**Post date:** [2015 年 9 月 22 日午後 4:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/insert-placeholder-text-in-post-while-uploading/32682/7 "2015-09-22T16:20:42Z")

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> [@erlend\_sh](#):
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> Cancelling the upload doesn’t remove the inserted upload placeholder text. I can see why this might be tricky.GitHub doesn’t even offer a cancel option…

That’s now fixed with

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e65ddc6c253fb89ce992a3610f60ccf6a30b02a5](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e65ddc6c253fb89ce992a3610f60ccf6a30b02a5)

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