Howdy! I have a form for submission of basic information. I am trying to style all of the placeholders (font-family, size, etc.). I can’t seem to make that work. I tried ::placeholder, but not sure where to put it? I don’t want to have to add styles to every placeholder, because i have a bunch. Any…

here documentation on the placeholder pseudoelement: ::placeholder - CSS | MDN

in your css file have you already worked with css?

I am trying to add the styling to this code snipped

you can’t use inline styling with a pseudoelement you may want to do the course on html and css: https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/responsive-web-design-v9/

thank you. is there any way to achieve this within the code snippet? I suppose i could add styling elements to each line, but that does not make sense.

you can’t style the placeholder with the style attribute, you need to use proper CSS

is there a way to add css to this code snippet? [image]

you may want to go through the course, I gave you the link so you can learn that is not the code to pass step 5 of the curriculum outline workshop this forum is here to help people wanting to learn to code, we do not write code

Thank you, ILM. I am trying to understand if what I am trying to do is possible. I am trying to integrate the above code snippet into my website, but its styling is not consistent with my current website. So I am constrained. I could add style elements to each placeholder, but i don’t want to use th…

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douglaskeene November 24, 2025, 5:51pm 3

Thank you ILM. I saw documentation about ::placeholder, but what is the context? Where do i place it so it will format each placeholder?

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