# Formatting Open Input Placeholder text
**URL:** https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/formatting-open-input-placeholder-text/1454
**Category:** General Help
**Tags:** component
**Created:** [January 31, 2022, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/formatting-open-input-placeholder-text/1454 "2022-01-31T13:18:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@darkcurv](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/u/darkcurv)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/formatting-open-input-placeholder-text/1454/1 "2022-01-31T13:18:26Z")
Hi there, I’m looking to format the placeholder text in an Open Input window but I can’t find where the option is - I’d like to make it bold and italic. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Many thanks
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### Author:  [@Matt\_Leathes](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/u/Matt_Leathes)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 2:33pm UTC](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/formatting-open-input-placeholder-text/1454/2 "2022-01-31T14:33:47Z")
Hi @darkcurv the placeholder text is set using the `placeholder` attribute of the [textarea element](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/textarea#attr-placeholder) - which doesn’t allow for any formatting bar carriage returns.
It would be possible to set the style of the entire element to bold&italic so that the placeholder text AND all text entered by the learner would be in bold&italic - but I don’t think that’s possible in Evolve at this time.
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### Author:  [@darkcurv](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/u/darkcurv)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 3:40pm UTC](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/formatting-open-input-placeholder-text/1454/3 "2022-01-31T15:40:35Z")
Thanks for the reply Matt. I figured that might be the case but just thought I’d check just in case.