How to Add a Placeholder with HTML5 to Form Fields

Last Updated on Saturday, 16 February 2013 11:36 Written by Richi González Sunday, 17 February 2013 12:00

Hello,

Now that HTML5 is becoming more and more compatible with web browsers, you should start thinking of adding placeholders to your form input fields. A placeholder is some text that is displayed when the form field hasn’t been clicked or has content in it. Here we have a picture of what a placeholder looks like in an input field:

Keep reading to learn how to do it by yourself!