How to change <input/>'s placeholder color?

Question

I tried the following with the stylesheet and <input/> yet the color of the placeholder still has not changed and stays at the default color. Am I doing it incorrectly?

my css stylesheet:

#input-field {
  background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.1);
  border: 0;
  border-radius: 5px;
  width: 150px;
  height: 40px;
  padding: 12px;
  box-shadow: none;
  color: rgba(255,255,255,0.8);
}

:-webkit-input-placeholder { /* WebKit, Blink, Edge */
    color:    blue;
}

:-moz-placeholder { /* Mozilla Firefox 4 to 18 */
   color:    blue;
   opacity:  1;
}

::-moz-placeholder { /* Mozilla Firefox 19+ */
   color:    blue;
   opacity:  1;
}

:-ms-input-placeholder { /* Internet Explorer 10-11 */
   color:    blue;
}

And my <input/> :

  <input
    className="form-control"
    id="input-field"
    placeholder='Change This Color'
  />

Answer 1

webkit needed two colons ::

 #input-field { font-family: serif; background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.1); border: 0; border-radius: 5px; width: 150px; height: 40px; padding: 12px; box-shadow: none; color: rgba(255,255,255,0.8); } ::-webkit-input-placeholder { color: blue; } :-moz-placeholder { /* Firefox 18- */ color: blue; opacity: 1; } ::-moz-placeholder { /* Firefox 19+ */ color: blue; opacity: 1; } :-ms-input-placeholder { color: blue; } 

 <input className="form-control" id="input-field" placeholder='Change This Color' /> 

to change the font-family add font-family: serif; to #input-field

Answer 2

In your Html Page

<input
class="form-control"
id="input-field"
placeholder='Change This Color'
/>

in your css page

.form-control::-webkit-input-placeholder {
  color: red;
  width: 250px;
  font-family:Helvetica Neue;
}

font-family:Helvetica Neue is working for me here is the link

Answer 3

Simply put this code down. Your error was that you forgot to put a colon.

I put a lot of time in this, but it all comes down to putting another colon after :-webkit-input-placeholder , making it ::-webkit-input-placeholder .

I just discovered someone else answered the same exact way I did, and I don't mean to copy them, because I figured this out myself.

Take a look at the complete code. PS I made it look cursive for font-family .

 #input-field { background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1); border: 0; border-radius: 5px; width: 150px; height: 40px; padding: 12px; color: red; box-shadow: none; font-family: cursive; } ::-webkit-input-placeholder { color: blue; font-family: cursive; } :-moz-placeholder { /* Firefox 18- */ color: red; opacity: 1; } ::-moz-placeholder { /* Firefox 19+ */ color: red; opacity: 1; } :-ms-input-placeholder { color: red; } 

 <input className="form-control" id="input-field" placeholder='Change This Color' />