Placeholders Bootstrap v5.1 Attribute Value: This attribute contains single value text which is the initial string to be displayed before user input. &&placeholder - CSS& Cascading Style Sheets | MDN - Mozilla And you don't have to do this separately. Heres an example HTML element to test out your placholder color: If youre using Sass, I have a similar snippet for you: When something is preceded by a colon in CSS, such as ::placeholder, it is a In order to, add a placeholder like any other tag you have to use placeholder attribute in