Placeholder Color
Utilities for controlling the color of placeholder text.
Default class reference
Class | Preview |
---|---|
placeholder-transparent::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-current::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-black::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-white::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-gray-50::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-gray-100::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-gray-200::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-gray-300::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-gray-400::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-gray-500::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-gray-600::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-gray-700::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-gray-800::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-gray-900::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-red-50::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-red-100::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-red-200::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-red-300::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-red-400::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-red-500::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-red-600::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-red-700::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-red-800::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-red-900::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-yellow-50::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-yellow-100::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-yellow-200::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-yellow-300::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-yellow-400::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-yellow-500::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-yellow-600::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-yellow-700::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-yellow-800::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-yellow-900::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-green-50::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-green-100::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-green-200::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-green-300::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-green-400::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-green-500::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-green-600::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-green-700::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-green-800::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-green-900::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-blue-50::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-blue-100::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-blue-200::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-blue-300::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-blue-400::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-blue-500::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-blue-600::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-blue-700::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-blue-800::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-blue-900::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-indigo-50::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-indigo-100::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-indigo-200::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-indigo-300::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-indigo-400::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-indigo-500::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-indigo-600::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-indigo-700::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-indigo-800::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-indigo-900::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-purple-50::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-purple-100::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-purple-200::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-purple-300::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-purple-400::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-purple-500::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-purple-600::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-purple-700::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-purple-800::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-purple-900::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-pink-50::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-pink-100::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-pink-200::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-pink-300::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-pink-400::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-pink-500::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-pink-600::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-pink-700::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-pink-800::placeholder | Aa |
placeholder-pink-900::placeholder | Aa |
Usage
Control the placeholder color of an element using the placeholder-{color}
utilities.
<input class="placeholder-gray-500 ..." placeholder="jane@example.com">
<input class="placeholder-red-300 ..." placeholder="jane@example.com">
Changing opacity
Control the opacity of an element’s placeholder color using the placeholder-opacity-{amount}
utilities.
<input class="placeholder-gray-500 placeholder-opacity-100 ..." placeholder="jane@example.com">
<input class="placeholder-gray-500 placeholder-opacity-75 ..." placeholder="jane@example.com">
<input class="placeholder-gray-500 placeholder-opacity-50 ..." placeholder="jane@example.com">
<input class="placeholder-gray-500 placeholder-opacity-25 ..." placeholder="jane@example.com">
<input class="placeholder-gray-500 placeholder-opacity-0 ..." placeholder="jane@example.com">
Learn more in the placeholder opacity documentation.
Responsive
To control the text color of an input placeholder at a specific breakpoint, add a {screen}:
prefix to any existing text color utility. For example, use md:placeholder-green-500
to apply the placeholder-green-500
utility at only medium screen sizes and above.
<input class="placeholder-gray-500 md:placeholder-green-500" placeholder="jane@example.com">
For more information about Tailwind’s responsive design features, check out the Responsive Design documentation.
Focus
To control the placeholder color of an element on focus, add the focus:
prefix to any existing placeholder color utility. For example, use focus:placeholder-blue-600
to apply the placeholder-blue-600
utility on focus.
<input class="placeholder-gray-600 focus:placeholder-gray-400 ..." placeholder="jane@example.com">
Focus utilities can also be combined with responsive utilities by adding the responsive {screen}:
prefix before the focus:
prefix.
<input class="... md:placeholder-gray-900 md:focus:placeholder-red-600 ...">
Customizing
Placeholder Colors
By default, Tailwind makes the entire default color palette available as placeholder colors.
You can customize your color palette by editing theme.colors
in your tailwind.config.js
file, or customize just your placeholder colors in the theme.textColor
section.
// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
theme: {
- placeholderColor: theme => theme('colors'),
+ placeholderColor: {
+ 'primary': '#3490dc',
+ 'secondary': '#ffed4a',
+ 'danger': '#e3342f',
+ }
}
}
Variants
By default, only responsive, dark mode (if enabled) and focus variants are generated for placeholder color utilities.
You can control which variants are generated for the placeholder color utilities by modifying the placeholderColor
property in the variants
section of your tailwind.config.js
file.
For example, this config will also generate hover and active variants:
// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
variants: {
extend: {
// ...
+ placeholderColor: ['hover', 'active'],
}
}
}
Disabling
If you don’t plan to use the placeholder color utilities in your project, you can disable them entirely by setting the placeholderColor
property to false
in the corePlugins
section of your config file:
// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
corePlugins: {
// ...
+ placeholderColor: false,
}
}