When RSD first appeared, there was an attribute 'placeholder'. It was removed because of some limitations in Chrome, but AFAIK Chrome has caught up and there is no reason why not allow the placeholder attribute back in again. As of SD3, latest version, it still cannot be used - other than after export.

That was the background story, now my question: How on earth can I get that placeholder text a bit darker, so that it can be seen? I have tried placing some css at all possible - and impossible - positions, to no avail.

I have a form here: https://eikweb.com/sharing/rff-form/contact.html Look at the field just above the submit button, squint your eyes, and with a bit of luck you can read what it says. Especially if you are using FireFox, you will have trouble. I would like to have that font a bit darker, but how do I do that? Any good ideas?

Choose your color Inger.

Regards

Phil

<style>
::-webkit-input-placeholder {
color: #000;
}
::-moz-placeholder {
color: #000;
}
:-ms-input-placeholder {
color: #000;
}
::placeholder {
color: #000;
}
</style>

Unfortunately it didnt work with firefox

Brilliant, Phil! I made it work by adding !important to the moz variant, like this:



Where did you find that bit of code? I didn't do anything for the other variants, it was mainly Ffx I was concerned about. You can check that form again

Google's a wonderful thing. Just used a text editor and tried different things.
Coffeecup should add the placeholder within the program!!

Yes, they really should add it back in. Thanks for your help!

You can add the placeholders in by using jquery (target ID's) and you could also consider using opacity instead of color in Phils examples to adjust the levels of your placeholder(s).

stupid question i know but if you don't ask you don't get....were do you place the code above after export???

You can add it to the head inside <style></style> tags or in a custom.css and add a link to a style sheet to the head.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/custom.css"/>

my problem is i don't have a clue what I'm doing iv tried all of ur suggestion's but cant get any of them to work - CC should add editable place holders and save a lot of stress to people like me lol. here's my form https://www.bng59.com/BNG59_exported/BNG59/BNG59.html