PlaceHolder attribute is not working in Internet Explorer

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Hello My Dear Friends,
I am trying to use placeholder attribute in my website.

i am using this script for IE
it works but only for input text.

JavaScript

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        if (!$.support.placeholder) {
            var active = document.activeElement;
            
            $(':text').focus(function() {
                if ($(this).attr('placeholder') != '' && $(this).val() == $(this).attr('placeholder')) {
                    $(this).val('').removeClass('hasPlaceholder');
                }
            }).blur(function() {
                if ($(this).attr('placeholder') != '' && ($(this).val() == '' || $(this).val() == $(this).attr('placeholder'))) {
                    $(this).val($(this).attr('placeholder')).addClass('hasPlaceholder');
                }
            });
            $(':text').blur();
         
            $(active).focus();
           
           
            
        }
    });
</script>

I want placeholder for password & textarea also....
Please Help...!

Posted 19-Oct-11 6:00am

dreamz9

Updated 19-Oct-11 6:10am

Simon Bang Terkildsen

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2011-10-19T10:04:00

Solution 1

You say "I want"… Hm. You just want way to much from old good goofy IE. See: http://www.w3schools.com/html5/att_input_placeholder.asp[^].

—SA

Posted 19-Oct-11 10:04am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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raghukandru 21-Mar-13 6:51am

raghukandru 21-Mar-13 6:52am

i got the same problem but i use the above code to solve this issue

add the below style tag to your .css file

.placeholder {
color: #aaa;
}