Web placeholder text uses TextColour instead of the default placeholder colour
- Status
- Fixed
- Fixed in
- v26.9.4
- Area
- web
- Source discussion
- https://forum.objo.dev/d/1180-webapp-placeholdertext-use-textcolor-not-theme-default-color
- Last updated
- 2026-09-28
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Public summary
In web projects, the PlaceholderText of text-entry controls is drawn using the control's TextColour instead of the standard muted placeholder colour. Any project that sets a custom TextColour on a TextField, TextArea, SearchField, NumericTextField, ComboBox, DateTimePicker, or TagField gets a placeholder that looks like entered text (for example, a bright orange hint), both in the running web app and in the Studio web page designer preview.
Expected behaviour: as on desktop, placeholder text should always render in the default placeholder colour regardless of TextColour. TextColour should affect typed text only. Placeholder text is chrome, not content.