Placeholder is not supported in IE9; http://caniuse.com/#feat=input-placeholder
You can use a polyfill; https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/HTML5-Cross-browser-Polyfills On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:16 AM, aniket kulkarni <[email protected]>wrote: > When I create a text box using bootstrap css, the placeholder value is > visible in all browsers except IE. But in twitter site they're making it > visible (not java script, cause I turned off scripts and tested). And the > look and feel of several other tags using bootstrap css is different in IE. > Can anyone out there help me ? > > Here is the html file which I have written. > > <!DOCTYPE html> > <html lang="en"> > <head> > <meta charset="utf-8"> > <title>Twitter Bootstrap</title> > <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/bootstrap.css"> > </head> > > <body> > <form class="well"> > <label>Label name</label> > <input type="text" class="span3" placeholder="Type something"> > <button type="submit" class="btn">Submit</button> > </form> > </body> > </html> >
