HTMLTextAreaElement: placeholder property
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
Theplaceholder property of theHTMLTextAreaElement interface represents a hint to the user of what can be entered in the control. It reflects the<textarea> element'splaceholder attribute.
Value
A string.
Examples
js
const textareaElement = document.getElementById("comment");console.log(textArea.placeholder);Specifications
| Specification |
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| HTML # dom-textarea-placeholder |