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HTML

<input id="search" class="search-query" placeholder="Placeholder text here" name="" value"">

CSS

#search
{
    color:blue;
}

#search::-webkit-input-placeholder, #search:-moz-placeholder, #search::-moz-p, #search:-ms-input-placeholder {
   color: #898F9C;
}