Centering textarea placeholder text in Safari

Question

I want to center the placeholder text for my textareas. The code below works fine in Chrome and IE, but is left-aligned in Safari:

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Answer 1

I made a simple solution that works on Safari 5+ and all other browser you can check it at: http://jsfiddle.net/joaorito/RqUJL

HTML

    

        
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CSS

.center_area
  {
  font-size: 16px;
  width: 300px;
  height: 300px;
  border: 5px solid black;
  } 

.center_area ul
  {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
  background-color: red;
  height: 100%;
  width: 100%;
  }

.center_area ul li
  {
  color: #FFF;
  font-size: 1.500em;
  line-height: 28px;
  }

.center_area  ul li div
  {
  background-color: green;
  padding: 10px;
  text-align: center;
  }

.center_area .V_align
  {
  display: table;
  overflow: hidden;
  }

.center_area .V_align .V_cell
  {
  display: table-cell;
  vertical-align: middle;
  width: 100%;
  margin: 0 auto;
  }

.center_area .V_align .V_cell .V_element
  {
  display: block;
  }