Styled Input Placeholder

December 22, 2015

HTML5-ish Input Placeholder that works IE8+ and can be styled by CSS.

Style-able Placeholder Preview

It uses pseudo element to render placeholder (with HTML5 fallback) and styles are applied on pseudo element itself.

See the Pen Styled Input Placeholder by Kushal Pandya (@kushalpandya) on CodePen.

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