How do I set placeholder for ?</a></h1> </div> <div class="grid fw-wrap pb8 mb16 bb bc-black-075"> <div class="grid--cell ws-nowrap mr16 mb8" title="2016-01-12 19:07:53Z"> <span class="fc-light mr2">Asked</span> <time itemprop="dateCreated" datetime="2023-05-01T05:58:17.637" class="fromnow">May 01 '23 at 05:58</time> </div> <div class="grid--cell ws-nowrap mr16 mb8"> <span class="fc-light mr2">Active</span> <time class="fromnow" title="2023-05-02T16:35:13.690" datetime="2023-05-02T16:35:13.690">May 02 '23 at 16:35</a> </div> <div class="grid--cell ws-nowrap mb8" title="Viewed 109 times"> <span class="fc-light mr2">Viewed</span> 109 times </div> </div> <div id="mainbar" role="main" aria-label="questions and answers"> <div id="question" class="question" data-questionid="76144988" data-ownerid="18459148" data-score="-1"> <div class="post-layout"> <div class="votecell post-layout--left"> <div class="js-voting-container grid jc-center fd-column ai-stretch gs4 fc-black-200" data-post-id="76144988"> <button class="js-vote-up-btn grid--cell s-btn s-btnunset c-pointer"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="m0 svg-icon iconArrowUpLg" width="36" height="36" viewBox="0 0 36 36"><path d="M2 26h32L18 10 2 26z"></path></svg></button> <div class="js-vote-count grid--cell fc-black-500 fs-title grid fd-column ai-center" itemprop="upvoteCount" data-value="-1">-1</div> <button class="js-bookmark-btn s-btn s-btnunset c-pointer py4"> <svg aria-hidden="true" class="svg-icon iconBookmark" width="18" height="18" viewBox="0 0 18 18"><path d="M6 1a2 2 0 00-2 2v14l5-4 5 4V3a2 2 0 00-2-2H6zm3.9 3.83h2.9l-2.35 1.7.9 2.77L9 7.59l-2.35 1.7.9-2.76-2.35-1.7h2.9L9 2.06l.9 2.77z"></path></svg> <div class="js-bookmark-count mt4" data-value=""></div> </button> </div> </div> <div class="postcell post-layout--right"> <div class="s-prose js-post-body" itemprop="text"><p>I am unable to set my placeholder attribute for textarea tag. What did I do wrong?</p> <pre><code> <textarea name="eduinfo" id="eduinfo" cols=100% rows="10" placeholder="Write about your academic result eg. Math A , Science A, BM and etc (Please provide mininum subjects )"> </textarea> </div> </code></pre> <p>I am trying to use placeholder fpr textarea.</p></div> <div class="mt24 mb12"> <div class="post-taglist grid gs4 gsy fd-column"> <div class="grid ps-relative"> <a href="../../questions/tagged/html" class="post-tag js-gps-track" title="show questions tagged 'html'" rel="tag">html</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mb0"> <div class="mt16 grid gs8 gsy fw-wrap jc-end ai-start pt4 mb16"> <div class="grid--cell mr16 fl1 w96"></div> <div class="post-signature grid--cell"> <div class="s-user-card s-user-card"> <time class="s-user-card--time" datetime="edited May 02 '23 at 16:35">edited May 02 '23 at 16:35</time> <a href="../../users/12826055/str1ng" class="s-avatar s-avatar32 s-user-card--avatar"> <img class="s-avatar--image" src="../../users/profiles/12826055.webp" data-jdenticon-width="32" data-jdenticon-height="32" data-jdenticon-value="str1ng" /> </a> <div class="s-user-card--info"> <a href="../../users/12826055/str1ng" class="s-user-card--link">str1ng</a> <ul class="s-user-card--awards"> <li class="s-user-card--rep" title="reputation score">485</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-blingsilver" title="3 silver badges">3</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-blingbronze" title="14 bronze badges">14</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-signature owner grid--cell"> <div class="s-user-card s-user-card"> <time class="s-user-card--time" datetime="asked May 01 '23 at 05:58">asked May 01 '23 at 05:58</time> <a href="../../users/18459148/yaw-kean-huat" class="s-avatar s-avatar32 s-user-card--avatar"> <img class="s-avatar--image" src="../../users/profiles/18459148.webp" data-jdenticon-width="32" data-jdenticon-height="32" data-jdenticon-value="Yaw Kean Huat" /> </a> <div class="s-user-card--info"> <a href="../../users/18459148/yaw-kean-huat" class="s-user-card--link">Yaw Kean Huat</a> <ul class="s-user-card--awards"> <li class="s-user-card--rep" title="reputation score">3</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-bling__bronze" title="4 bronze badges">4</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-layout--right js-post-comments-component"> <div id="comments-76144988" class="comments js-comments-container bt bc-black-075 mt12 " data-post-id="76144988" data-min-length="15"> <ul class="comments-list js-comments-list" data-remaining-comments-count="0" data-canpost="false" data-cansee="true" data-comments-unavailable="false" data-addlink-disabled="true"> <li id="comment-134284522" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="134284522" data-comment-owner-id="21754828" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment134284522_76144988"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">Maybe delete the space between `>` and ``: https://stackoverflow.com/a/29761335/21754828</span> – <a href="../../users/21754828/thecoder-or-rather-acoder" title="292 reputation" class="comment-user ">TheCoder - or rather ACoder</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/76144988/how-do-i-set-placeholder-for-textarea#comment134284522_76144988"><span title="2023-05-01T06:03:28.110 License: CC BY-SA 4.0" class="relativetime-clean">May 01 '23 at 06:03</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-134284554" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="134284554" data-comment-owner-id="12826055" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment134284554_76144988"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">@TheCoder-orratherACoder Not quietly right for this code. The problem is with the incorrect usage of `cols` attribute as per stated in my answer.</span> – <a href="../../users/12826055/str1ng" title="485 reputation" class="comment-user ">str1ng</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/76144988/how-do-i-set-placeholder-for-textarea#comment134284554_76144988"><span title="2023-05-01T06:11:35.977 License: CC BY-SA 4.0" class="relativetime-clean">May 01 '23 at 06:11</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-134284617" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="134284617" data-comment-owner-id="21754828" data-comment-score="1"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> <span title="number of 'useful comment' votes received" class="warm">1</span> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment134284617_76144988"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">@str1ng try it with `cols=100%` without the quotes, it should still work.</span> – <a href="../../users/21754828/thecoder-or-rather-acoder" title="292 reputation" class="comment-user ">TheCoder - or rather ACoder</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/76144988/how-do-i-set-placeholder-for-textarea#comment134284617_76144988"><span title="2023-05-01T06:22:59.213 License: CC BY-SA 4.0" class="relativetime-clean">May 01 '23 at 06:22</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-134286157" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="134286157" data-comment-owner-id="12826055" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment134286157_76144988"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">@TheCoder-orratherACoder Sometimes it will work, sometimes it won't. Depends on a browser and how browser figures it out, but it will definitely get wanted output if you follow standards. Generally said using a percentage as value for the `cols` attribute isn't valid HTML syntax. If it is specified, it must be a positive integer. If it is not specified, the default value is 20. So, it's more about standard of HTML syntax here.</span> – <a href="../../users/12826055/str1ng" title="485 reputation" class="comment-user ">str1ng</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/76144988/how-do-i-set-placeholder-for-textarea#comment134286157_76144988"><span title="2023-05-01T10:07:07.733 License: CC BY-SA 4.0" class="relativetime-clean">May 01 '23 at 10:07</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-134286389" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="134286389" data-comment-owner-id="21754828" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment134286389_76144988"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">@str1ng yeah, I guess... All I said was that deleting the space will fix it. :)</span> – <a href="../../users/21754828/thecoder-or-rather-acoder" title="292 reputation" class="comment-user ">TheCoder - or rather ACoder</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/76144988/how-do-i-set-placeholder-for-textarea#comment134286389_76144988"><span title="2023-05-01T10:33:23.307 License: CC BY-SA 4.0" class="relativetime-clean">May 01 '23 at 10:33</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-134291968" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="134291968" data-comment-owner-id="12826055" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment134291968_76144988"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">@TheCoder-orratherACoder And all I said that it's not valid HTML :)</span> – <a href="../../users/12826055/str1ng" title="485 reputation" class="comment-user ">str1ng</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/76144988/how-do-i-set-placeholder-for-textarea#comment134291968_76144988"><span title="2023-05-01T18:37:15.293 License: CC BY-SA 4.0" class="relativetime-clean">May 01 '23 at 18:37</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="answers"> <a name="tab-top"></a> <div id="answers-header"> <div class="answers-subheader grid ai-center mb8"> <div class="grid--cell fl1"> <h2 class="mb0" data-answercount="9">1 Answers<span style="display:none;" itemprop="answerCount">1</span></h2> </div> </div> </div> <a name="76145005"></a> <div id="answer-76145005" class="answer " data-answerid="76145005" data-ownerid="12826055" data-score="2" itemprop="suggestedAnswer" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Answer"> <div class="post-layout"> <div class="votecell post-layout--left"> <div class="js-voting-container grid jc-center fd-column ai-stretch gs4 fc-black-200" data-post-id="76145005"> <button class="js-vote-up-btn grid--cell s-btn s-btnunset c-pointer"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="m0 svg-icon iconArrowUpLg" width="36" height="36" viewBox="0 0 36 36"><path d="M2 26h32L18 10 2 26z"></path></svg></button> <div class="js-vote-count grid--cell fc-black-500 fs-title grid fd-column ai-center" itemprop="upvoteCount" data-value="2">2</div> </div> </div> <div class="postcell post-layout--right"> <div class="s-prose js-post-body" itemprop="text"><p>The problem is with your <code>cols</code> attribute, the way you're using it is not correct.</p> <p>Instead of setting it by <code>cols=100%</code> you should do it by <code>cols="100"</code>. Placeholder should be working after this.</p> <p></p><div class="snippet" data-babel="false" data-console="true" data-hide="false" data-lang="js"> <div class="snippet-code"> <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code><!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" /> </head> <body> <textarea name="eduinfo" id="eduinfo" cols="100" rows="10" placeholder="Write about your academic result eg. Math A, Science A, BM, etc. (Please provide minimum subjects)"></textarea> </body> </html></code></pre> </div> </div> <p><em><strong>The size of a textarea can also be set by the CSS height and width properties.</strong></em></p></div> <div class="mb0"> <div class="mt16 grid gs8 gsy fw-wrap jc-end ai-start pt4 mb16"> <div class="grid--cell mr16 fl1 w96"></div> <div class="post-signature grid--cell"> <div class="s-user-card s-user-card"> <time class="s-user-card--time" datetime="answered May 01 '23 at 06:03">answered May 01 '23 at 06:03</time> <a href="../../users/12826055/str1ng" class="s-avatar s-avatar32 s-user-card--avatar"> <img class="s-avatar--image" src="../../users/profiles/12826055.webp" data-jdenticon-width="32" data-jdenticon-height="32" data-jdenticon-value="str1ng" /> </a> <div class="s-user-card--info"> <a href="../../users/12826055/str1ng" class="s-user-card--link">str1ng</a> <ul class="s-user-card--awards"> <li class="s-user-card--rep" title="reputation score">485</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-blingsilver" title="3 silver badges">3</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-blingbronze" title="14 bronze badges">14</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-layout--right js-post-comments-component"> <div id="comments-76145005" class="comments js-comments-container bt bc-black-075 mt12 " data-post-id="76145005" data-min-length="15"> <ul class="comments-list js-comments-list" data-remaining-comments-count="0" data-canpost="false" data-cansee="true" data-comments-unavailable="false" data-addlink-disabled="true"> <li id="comment-134285843" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="134285843" data-comment-owner-id="18459148" data-comment-score="1"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> <span title="number of 'useful comment' votes received" class="warm">1</span> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment134285843_76145005"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">Thanks.... the solution is so easy. Have a nice day. This thread is closed</span> – <a href="../../users/18459148/yaw-kean-huat" title="3 reputation" class="comment-user owner">Yaw Kean Huat</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/76144988/how-do-i-set-placeholder-for-textarea#comment134285843_76145005"><span title="2023-05-01T09:28:22.707 License: CC BY-SA 4.0" class="relativetime-clean">May 01 '23 at 09:28</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-134292635" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="134292635" data-comment-owner-id="162698" data-comment-score="2"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> <span title="number of 'useful comment' votes received" class="warm">2</span> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment134292635_76145005"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">Note that the [<meta/>](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/dev/semantics.html#the-meta-element) tag does not use and does not need a closing slash and never has in any HTML specification.</span> – <a href="../../users/162698/rob" title="14,746 reputation" class="comment-user ">Rob</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/76144988/how-do-i-set-placeholder-for-textarea#comment134292635_76145005"><span title="2023-05-01T19:37:14.037 License: CC BY-SA 4.0" class="relativetime-clean">May 01 '23 at 19:37</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-134294666" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="134294666" data-comment-owner-id="12826055" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment134294666_76145005"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">@Rob That's true - `<meta/>` tag doesn't require/is never used together with `/`. To elaborate, putting `/` before tag's `>` is known as a self-closing or void tag. However, I still can see it being used with certain HTML elements that do not require a closing tag,such as `<br/>`, `<img/>`, and `<input/>`. The purpose - providing a backward compatibility with XHTML. You can see it being used in MDN - [here](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Multimedia_and_embedding/Images_in_HTML) .This is more thing of habit in my case - my point <meta/> doesn't require a closing tag so I use it.</span> – <a href="../../users/12826055/str1ng" title="485 reputation" class="comment-user ">str1ng</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/76144988/how-do-i-set-placeholder-for-textarea#comment134294666_76145005"><span title="2023-05-01T23:24:01.603 License: CC BY-SA 4.0" class="relativetime-clean">May 01 '23 at 23:24</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-134294710" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="134294710" data-comment-owner-id="162698" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment134294710_76145005"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">No. From the W3C: [Trailing slashes in void-element start tags do not mark the start tags as self-closing](https://github.com/validator/validator/wiki/Markup-%C2%BB-Void-elements#trailing-slashes-in-void-element-start-tags-do-not-mark-the-start-tags-as-self-closing)</span> – <a href="../../users/162698/rob" title="14,746 reputation" class="comment-user ">Rob</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/76144988/how-do-i-set-placeholder-for-textarea#comment134294710_76145005"><span title="2023-05-01T23:31:13.513 License: CC BY-SA 4.0" class="relativetime-clean">May 01 '23 at 23:31</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-134294717" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="134294717" data-comment-owner-id="162698" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment134294717_76145005"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">Your HTML is not backwards compatible with XHTML. And it would need to be XHTML or not. You can't have both.</span> – <a href="../../users/162698/rob" title="14,746 reputation" class="comment-user ">Rob</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/76144988/how-do-i-set-placeholder-for-textarea#comment134294717_76145005"><span title="2023-05-01T23:32:31.190 License: CC BY-SA 4.0" class="relativetime-clean">May 01 '23 at 23:32</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-134294720" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="134294720" data-comment-owner-id="162698" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment134294720_76145005"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">You see it on the MDN site but that is a bug (how it works) in their editor (prettier) that they can't get out of. There's long commentary on their github page but I can't find the link at the moment.</span> – <a href="../../users/162698/rob" title="14,746 reputation" class="comment-user ">Rob</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/76144988/how-do-i-set-placeholder-for-textarea#comment134294720_76145005"><span title="2023-05-01T23:33:10.280 License: CC BY-SA 4.0" class="relativetime-clean">May 01 '23 at 23:33</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-134294747" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="134294747" data-comment-owner-id="162698" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment134294747_76145005"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">[Here's the link](https://github.com/orgs/mdn/discussions/242#discussioncomment-3752163) Note the final comment about Prettier</span> – <a href="../../users/162698/rob" title="14,746 reputation" class="comment-user ">Rob</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/76144988/how-do-i-set-placeholder-for-textarea#comment134294747_76145005"><span title="2023-05-01T23:37:25.937 License: CC BY-SA 4.0" class="relativetime-clean">May 01 '23 at 23:37</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-134294773" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="134294773" data-comment-owner-id="162698" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment134294773_76145005"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">In fact, [trailing slashes can cause harm](https://github.com/validator/validator/wiki/Markup-%C2%BB-Void-elements#trailing-slashes-directly-preceded-by-unquoted-attribute-values)</span> – <a href="../../users/162698/rob" title="14,746 reputation" class="comment-user ">Rob</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/76144988/how-do-i-set-placeholder-for-textarea#comment134294773_76145005"><span title="2023-05-01T23:42:09.820 License: CC BY-SA 4.0" class="relativetime-clean">May 01 '23 at 23:42</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-134294780" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="134294780" data-comment-owner-id="162698" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment134294780_76145005"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">So don't use the closing slash. In HTML, it has no meaning, it does nothing and browsers ignore it.</span> – <a href="../../users/162698/rob" title="14,746 reputation" class="comment-user ">Rob</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/76144988/how-do-i-set-placeholder-for-textarea#comment134294780_76145005"><span title="2023-05-01T23:42:56.567 License: CC BY-SA 4.0" class="relativetime-clean">May 01 '23 at 23:42</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <script src="../../static/js/stack-icons.js"></script> <script src="../../static/js/fromnow.js"></script> </body> </html>