I ported a plugin I wrote a while ago to jmvc that fakes html5 placeholder behavior.  It mostly works except I have one peculiar problem:

I need to capture clicks on the parent box of the label and input field and simulate a focus event on the field.  This will cover both both types of focus: click on field and tab to field.  I did it this way to that the click would always bubble up to a focus even if you clicked on the label which is superimposed on the field (twitter does this, among many others).  In the controller init() I have:

1. this.delegate(this.element.parent(),'', 'click', function(ev) {
2.       self.element.trigger("focus"); // I've debugged to here, this is indeed firing on parent click
   
3.       return false;
4. });