Is It Possible to Put Placeholder text into a Text InputBox?

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October 2, 2025
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Correct answer JoãoCésar17023019

Hi.

You can set its placeholder property as this TextInput component is a regular HTML input text under the hood. Just keep in mind that components are not immediately ready when the code in the first frame of the main timeline runs. So one of the approaches is to listen for the stage's drawend event. Like this:

function main()
{
    var inputTF = document.getElementById("yourInstanceName");
    inputTF.placeholder = "Something...";
}

stage.on("drawend", main, this, true);

Regards,

JC

JoãoCésar17023019

Correct answer

Community Expert

Hi.

You can set its placeholder property as this TextInput component is a regular HTML input text under the hood. Just keep in mind that components are not immediately ready when the code in the first frame of the main timeline runs. So one of the approaches is to listen for the stage's drawend event. Like this:

function main()
{
    var inputTF = document.getElementById("yourInstanceName");
    inputTF.placeholder = "Something...";
}

stage.on("drawend", main, this, true);

Regards,

JC