Web features explorer - ::placeholder

Tags: css Groups: CSS > Selectors

The ::placeholder CSS pseudo-element selects help text in <input> and <textarea> elements when no value is set. To learn more, see ::placeholder at MDN.

Compatibility (view on caniuse.com)

Chrome 57 Released on 2017-03-09
Chrome Android 57 Released on 2017-03-16
Edge 79 Released on 2020-01-15
Firefox 51 Released on 2017-01-24
Firefox for Android 51 Released on 2017-01-24
Safari 10.1 Released on 2017-03-27
Safari on iOS 10.3 Released on 2017-03-27

Specifications

CSS Pseudo-Elements Module Level 4 (#placeholder-pseudo), from Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (W3C).