https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/placeholder-text-a-different-style-than-typed-in-text Gravity Support Forums Topic: Placeholder text a different style than typed-in text en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:40:29 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/placeholder-text-a-different-style-than-typed-in-text#post-332264 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:25:46 +0000 Rob Harrell 332264@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>There isn't a way to style it in this way because your only options here are going to be to target the input or the input:focus like you mentioned.</p> <p>You might consider giving Gravity Perks a try which has valid HTML5 placeholder support, with JS as a backup:</p> <p><a href="http://gravitywiz.com/gravity-perks/" rel="nofollow">http://gravitywiz.com/gravity-perks/</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/placeholder-text-a-different-style-than-typed-in-text#post-329399 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:29:46 +0000 jbro 329399@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi, I'm using GF with the excellent clearit hack (here: <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/clearing-default-form-field-values-with-jquery/)" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/clearing-default-form-field-values-with-jquery/)</a>. With the input:focus pseudoselector I've gotten typed-in entry text to be a different style than the default content (default content is italic and gray, typing is normal and black). </p> <p>The problem is, when you take focus away, the text you entered is grayed-out and the client doesn't like this. </p> <p>Is there any way to make text boxes that have been filled out be a different text style than default content? I'm open to re-doing the javascript implementation if necessary. </p> <p>Thanks in advance to anyone who can point me in the right direction! </p> <p>Oh here's the site (currently in pre-release): <a href="http://asklegalbrains.com/" rel="nofollow">http://asklegalbrains.com/</a></p> <p>Thanks<br /> jb </p>