To have a placeholder text for multiple line text area fields in your forms, you can use this small script below:

WARNING: This script requires jQuery. If you need a hand adding jQuery to your page, you can check our documentation: Installing jQuery on your Landing Page

Step by Step

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  Make sure you have a multiline text are on your form.

  
  


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  Copy and Paste the text below as a Javascript Script, select to apply the script after body tag.

  
  

       <script>
  
            $(document).ready(function () {
  
                $('form').find("input[type=textarea], textarea").each(function (ev) {
  
                    if (!$(this).val()) {
  
                        $(this).attr("placeholder", "Type the placeholder text here!!!");
  
                    }
  
                });
  
            });
  
        </script>
  
  

  
  


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  Change the Type the placeholder text here!!! to your desired placeholder text.

  
  


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  Save and Republish your page.

  
  

Check out an example page here: https://tst.brunagarcia.tk/multi-line-placeholder/