Change an HTML5 input's placeholder color with CSS?

Answer 1

Yes. To do this you would want to use the ::placeholder pseudoselector within the CSS that styles the webpage. Be sure to include the placeholder="text" as a HTML5 input tag attribute. Working JSfiddle here:

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https://jsfiddle.net/z45o7nw2/1/