fail to change placeholder color with Bootstrap 3

Question

Two questions:

1. I am trying to make the placeholder text white. But it doesn\'t work. I am using Bootstrap 3. JSFiddle demo

2. Another question is h

Answer 1

Bootstrap has 3 lines of CSS, within your bootstrap.css generated file that control the placeholder text color:

.form-control::-moz-placeholder {
  color: #999999;
  opacity: 1;
}
.form-control:-ms-input-placeholder {
  color: #999999;
}
.form-control::-webkit-input-placeholder {
  color: #999999;
}

Now if you add this to your own CSS file it won't override bootstrap's because it is less specific. So assmuning your form inside a then add that to your CSS:

form .form-control::-moz-placeholder {
  color: #fff;
  opacity: 1;
}
form .form-control:-ms-input-placeholder {
  color: #fff;
}
form .form-control::-webkit-input-placeholder {
  color: #fff;
}

Voila that will override bootstrap's CSS.