How do I add placeholder text to TinyMCE?

jquery tinymce tinymce-4
user1556571 picture user1556571 · Dec 1, 2014 · Viewed 22.9k times · Source

For standard textareas, I use placeholder="" . How can I extend tinymce so that it also works in this way.

Similar to this for CKEditor: http://alfonsoml.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/placeholder-text-in-ckeditor.html

Answer

Ryan Ahearn picture Ryan Ahearn · May 20, 2015

The placeholder plugin worked great for me. This plugin brings HTML5 placeholder attribute functionality for the TinyMCE editor.

Related questions

How do i use TinyMCE jQuery package and what is the difference with TinyMCE jQuery plugin

I've seen this post What is the TinyMCE jQuery Package? which explains what the v4 TinyMCE jQuery package is but the post and the tinymce site only contain examples of v3. When I download the v4 TinyMCE jQuery package there …

Read More
uncaught referenceerror: tinymce is not defined

My JS: $(document).ready(function() { tinymce.init({ selector: 'textarea', height: 500, menubar: false, plugins: [ 'advlist autolink lists link image charmap print preview anchor', 'searchreplace visualblocks code fullscreen', 'insertdatetime media table contextmenu paste code' ], toolbar: 'undo redo | insert | styleselect | bold italic | alignleft …

Read More
TinyMCE not working - even with their example?

ISSUE: I am attempting to use TinyMCE 4.0.12. But couldn't get it to work, it just makes my text areas disappear altogether. What i have done so far: I even copied their example code exactly from their page, and it doesn't …

Read More