Example

by Santosh Thakur

HTML

<!-- Learn about this code on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/::placeholder -->

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<br>
<br>
<input placeholder="Type something here!">

CSS

input::placeholder {
  color: red;
  font-size: 1.2em;
  font-style: italic;
}

input::placeholder::first-letter {
  color: green;
  border-bottom: 1px solid red;
}