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Sean Anderson
Sean Anderson

Reputation: 29251

Inspect webkit-input-placeholder with developer tools

It's possible to style a text input's placeholder with the following:

-webkit-input-placeholder {
    color: red;
}

I am looking at a website online and I would like to use the same placeholder color as they do. Is it possible to figure out what color they used? I would like to include any alpha values, so I can't just sample the color with an image editor.

When I inspect the element with Chrome Dev Tools, I see:

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Dev tools does not provide information regarding the placeholder element when inspecting the input element. Is there another way?

Upvotes: 373

Views: 114748

Answers (2)

Sean Anderson
Sean Anderson

Reputation: 29251

I figured it out.

The trick is to enable 'Show user agent shadow DOM' in the Settings panel of Chrome Developer Tools:

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To get to settings, click the Gear icon at the top right of your Dev Tools panel, then make sure Preferences tab on the left-hand side is selected, find the Elements heading, and check "Show user agent shadow DOM" checkbox below that heading.

With that, you can now see it:

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Upvotes: 755

Jay Supeda
Jay Supeda

Reputation: 989

  1. For Google Chrome Version 69:
  2. Open Inspect Elements: On Mac ⌘ + Shift + C, on Windows / Linux Ctrl + Shift + C OR F12.
  3. Click the "⋮" button at the top right then Go to settings
  4. In settings click on Preferences > Click on Show user agent Shadow DOM

The below images show the process:

Go to settings > Preferences:
Go to settings > Preferences

Click on Show user agent Shadow DOM:
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View the CSS of placeholder:
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Upvotes: 82

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