placeholder to textarea inside a JSP page

Question

I am trying to use the plcaeholder attribute inside a <textarea> tag of a jsp page.

<textarea rows="13" cols="94" id="message" name="txtAreaName" style="vertical-align: onclick="textAreaPlaceholding()">Enter the message here...</textarea>

But it shows that placeholder="some_text_content" is not a valid attribute(Undefined attribute name (placeholder)). What can be the problem? Am I using any wrong attribute inside the <textarea> tag or anything else like I follow a wrong syntax.

As it don't work, for now I displayed a text content which will go invisible when user clicks the textarea and/or when the textarea is edited; with the help of a javascript method which you can find in the above code as 'onclick="textAreaPlaceholding()"'. But I need to know the exact problem and solution.

Thanks in advance for your responses.!

Answer 1

try this

<textarea placeholder="Enter the message here...">
</textarea>