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Apply opacity for the default style of INPUT/TEXTAREA placeholder

Category

DOM

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 78)

Intent stage

Prepare to ship

Summary

Changes the default style for ::placeholder from #757575 to rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.54).

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-pseudo-4/#placeholder-pseudo
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=932026

Explainers: --

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