Placeholder not working for Internet Explorer

Question

Placeholder for my textbox in below format is not working for Internet Explorer. Is there anyway to display placeholder for TextBox in Internet Explorer?

Answer 1

Placeholder is an HTML5 feature. To work around I detect MSIE and do this:

if ( $.browser.msie ) {
    $("#textarea-id").val('placeholder');
    $("#textarea-id").focus(function(){
        this.select();
    });
}

Its jquery but not that complicated...