Check Placeholder Field For Free

The placeholder attribute specifies a short hint that describes the expected value of a text field (e.g. a sample value or a short description of the expected format). The short hint is displayed in the text field before the user enters a value.

Click in the textarea and look at where the cursor is positioned. Then hit the backspace key until you get to the beginning of the line. Your placeholder should appear. It seems that the new line in your html between the textarea opening and closing tags is interpreted as input text in the textarea .

<input placeholder=""> Specifies placeholder text in a text-based input.

In most browsers, the placeholder text is grey. To change this, style the placeholder with the ::placeholder selector. Note that Firefox adds a lower opacity to the placeholder, so we use opacity: 1 to fix this.

CSS ::placeholder Selector The ::placeholder selector selects form elements with placeholder text, and let you style the placeholder text. The placeholder text is set with the placeholder attribute, which specifies a hint that describes the expected value of an input field.

Check the "Show user agent shadow DOM" checkbox and reload your page. You should now see the placeholder html output in your dev tools when you view the elements tab. Clicking on the placeholder html will bring up the applied styles for you to view or edit.

You can also see the placeholder value is printed in the Eclipse console window, indicating that our getAttribute() method fetched the correct results.

First, you need to create your select items with the help of the <option> tag. Then, set the disabled and selected attributes for your empty element, which is supposed to be the placeholder. Now, you can see that the first line is like a placeholder field. It will be undetectable but still visible.