# Tutorial: Styling Placeholder Text with CSS

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-styling-placeholder-text-with-css/327644
**Category:** web dev
**Created:** [March 16, 2012, 7:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-styling-placeholder-text-with-css/327644 "2012-03-16T07:17:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
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### Author: ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2012, 7:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-styling-placeholder-text-with-css/327644/1 "2012-03-16T07:17:33Z")

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