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The Placeholder-shown Pseudo-class: :placeholder-shown

Category

CSS

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 47)

Intent stage

None

Summary

The :placeholder-shown pseudo-class matches an input element that is showing placeholder text.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors-4/#placeholder
• Firefox: Positive
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=451120

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