HTML5 textarea placeholder not appearing

Question

I cannot figure out what is wrong with my markup, but the placeholder for the text area will not appear. It seems as though it may be covered up with some blank spaces and t

Answer 1

Well, technically it does not have to be on the same line as long as there is no character between the ending ">" from start tag and the starting "<" from the closing tag. That is you need to end with ...> as in the example below:

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