Input placeholder

Avoid placeholder text completely

  • It is exceedingly rare that placeholder text helps anyone.
  • It creates more problems that it solves.

Never use placeholder as a label or description

  • No, actual NEVER. Don’t do this. Ever.
  • It disappears as soon as people type, requiring people to remember the purpose of the input
  • It is read inconsistently by screen readers

Never use placeholder as a label

Never use placeholder as a hint description