How to set placeholder value using CSS?

Question

I want to set the placeholder value of an input box using only css and not JavaScript or jQuery. How can I do this?

Answer 1

From what I understand using,

::-webkit-input-placeholder::beforeor ::-webkit-input-placeholder::after,

to add more placeholder content doesn't work anymore. Think its a new Chrome update.

Really annoying as it was a great workaround, now im back to just adding lots of empty spaces between lines that I want in a placeholder. eg: