Placeholders are not displaying in IE8 for Bootstrap

user521024 picture user521024 · Nov 7, 2012 · Viewed 25.5k times · Source

I am using Bootstrap for my project. The placeholders are displaying fine for all browsers except in Internet Explorer 8 and below.

Are there any solutions to get placeholder support in IE8?

Answer

Ruben picture Ruben · Apr 26, 2013

you can use this plugin https://github.com/mathiasbynens/jquery-placeholder Even works in IE6