Lesson: HTML5 and CSS
Add Placeholder Text to a Text Field
Your placeholder text is what appears in your text input
before your user has input anything.
You can create placeholder text like so:
<input type="text" placeholder="this is placeholder text">
Set the placeholder
value of your text input
to "cat photo URL".
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