Place Holder Text Does Not Show in Text Area

This is bizaar. I use placeholder text in forms to helpthe user how & what to input. Placeholders work fine one simple input fields, however, on a textarea the placeholder text just does not want to show up. Well, not at least untill you have entered something. Then and only then, f you delete the text you have entered does the placehold text show up.

I have tried with Collective as well as with raw HTML. Both gives the same result.

Any ideas?

<div class="form-row form-group">
                    <div class="col-sm-12 col-md-12"><textarea class="form-control" id="quote_comment" placeholder="free format comment" rows="3" name="comment" cols="50"> </textarea></div>
                     </div>

guybrush_threepwood

5 years ago

Best Answer

Level 33

Try removing the space between the textarea open and close tags.

Now:

<textarea class="form-control" id="quote_comment" placeholder="free format comment" rows="3" name="comment" cols="50"> </textarea>

Change to:

<textarea class="form-control" id="quote_comment" placeholder="free format comment" rows="3" name="comment" cols="50"></textarea>

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vincej

5 years ago

Level 15

Unbelievable! Thank you very much !!

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guybrush_threepwood

5 years ago

Level 33

You're welcome @vincej

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