{
  "title":"::placeholder CSS pseudo-element",
  "description":"The ::placeholder pseudo-element represents placeholder text in an input field: text that represents the input and provides a hint to the user on how to fill out the form. For example, a date-input field might have the placeholder text `YYYY/MM/DD` to clarify that numeric dates are to be entered in year-month-day order.",
  "spec":"http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-pseudo-4/#placeholder-pseudo",
  "status":"wd",
  "links":[
    {
      "url":"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh772745(v=vs.85).aspx",
      "title":"MSDN article"
    },
    {
      "url":"http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/style-placeholder-text/",
      "title":"CSS-Tricks article with all prefixes"
    },
    {
      "url":"http://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/placeholder-styling",
      "title":"CSSWG discussion"
    },
    {
      "url":"https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/::-moz-placeholder",
      "title":"MDN article"
    },
    {
      "url":"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1069012",
      "title":"Mozilla Bug 1069012 - unprefix :placeholder-shown pseudo-class and ::placeholder pseudo-element"
    }
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  ],
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  "notes":"Partial support refers to using alternate names:\r\n`::-webkit-input-placeholder` for Chrome/Safari/Opera ([Chrome issue #623345](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=623345))\r\n`:-ms-input-placeholder` for IE. \r\n`::-ms-input-placeholder` for Edge (also supports webkit prefix)",
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    "1":"Firefox 18 and below supported the `:-moz-placeholder` pseudo-class rather than the `::-moz-placeholder` pseudo-element."
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  "ucprefix":false,
  "parent":"",
  "keywords":"::placeholder,placeholder",
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}