Would anyone know how to add placeholder text into the visual editor version of the text area for forums.

Once we enable the visual editor option mentioned here, this option from WPMU no longer works.

Thanks very much in advance.

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years, 10 months ago]

you would think that was easy – but placeholder is a concept for <input> and <textarea> tags, and wordpress doesn’t use that for then visual editor.

I found several bits of code that do this for posts and pages, but couldn’t get them to work on topics/replies – I haven’t yet worked out why.

I’ll have a further play later to see if I can work it out

Robin