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JavaScript Treehouse Club - MASH MASH - CSS CSS in Dev Tools

Posted by Marie Hix
Marie Hix
1,610 Points

Adding placeholder text and getting it to work?

Because I'm making so many changes, I wanted to add some placeholder text to the fields so that I wouldn't have to keep typing in my values. But when I did that (using placeholder="texthere" in the input) it still runs as Undefined. Is there a way to make that text stay there/work/function like actual text? Thanks!

Tony Nguyen
Tony Nguyen
24,934 Points
Tony Nguyen
Tony Nguyen
24,934 Points

Do you have the full code so that we can see where it went wrong?

1 Answer

Chyno Deluxe
Chyno Deluxe
16,936 Points

You can hard code the html element to already include the value text. Example Here

Marie Hix
Marie Hix
1,610 Points

Thanks! I tried changing placeholder to value and it still returns Undefined. Edit - Now it's working. Weird. Thanks for your help!