Inspect webkit-input-placeholder with developer tools
css, html
Solution
I figured it out.
The trick is to enable 'Show user agent shadow DOM' in the Settings panel of Chrome Developer Tools:
To get to settings, click the Gear icon at the top right of your Dev Tools panel, then make sure Preferences tab on the left-hand side is selected, find the Elements heading, and check "Show user agent shadow DOM" checkbox below that heading.
With that, you can now see it:
Problem
It's possible to style a text input's placeholder with the following: ``` -webkit-input-placeholder { color: red; } ``` I am looking at a website online and I would like to use the same placeholder color as they do. Is it possible to figure out what color they used? I would like to include any alpha values, so I can't just sample the color with an image editor. When I inspect the element with Chrome Dev Tools, I see: Dev tools does not provide information regarding the placeholder element when inspecting the input element. Is there another way?