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.

The placeholder property of the HTMLTextAreaElement interface represents a hint to the user of what can be entered in the control. It reflects the <textarea> element's placeholder attribute.

Value

A string.

Examples

js
const textareaElement = document.getElementById("comment");
console.log(textArea.placeholder);

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-textarea-placeholder

Browser compatibility

See also