[Resolved] Add placeholder to comment textarea field

[George]

Is there a function to add a placeholder in the comment form textarea field?

The following code doesn’t work:

add_filter( 'comment_form_defaults', 'gm_textarea_placeholder' );
  
function gm_textarea_placeholder( $fields ) {
    $fields['comment_field'] = str_replace(
        '<textarea',
        '<textarea placeholder="Comment"',
        $fields['comment_field']
    );

	return $fields;
}

[Leo]

Hi George,

The comment is field is handled by WordPress and I found this article that might help?
https://pupungbp.com/add-placeholder-to-your-comment-form-in-wordpress/

[George]

Yes, Leo, I have tried everything, nothing works!

[Leo]

Any chance you can check with WordPress’ support team first and see if they can provide any quick pointers?

[George]

Oh really? Not hoping to get a reply any time soon from them. Damn, didn’t think it was that complicated! Maybe somehow GP overrides those settings? I have tried a lot of code that should work but it doesn’t.

[Leo]

I don’t think so but definitely could be wrong 🙂

Did you test if the same code works in a twenty series WP theme?

Let me know 🙂

[George]

Doesn’t work on a default theme, either. The yourdomain needs to be placed by generatepress, right?

[George]

I have also tried this, no luck!
https://www.billerickson.net/code/use-placeholders-instead-of-labels-in-comment-form/

[Leo]

What about this:

add_filter( 'comment_form_defaults', function( $defaults ) {
    $defaults['comment_field'] = sprintf(
        '<p class="comment-form-comment"><label for="comment" class="screen-reader-text">%1$s</label><textarea placeholder="PLACE HOLDER TEXT HERE" id="comment" name="comment" cols="45" rows="8" aria-required="true"></textarea></p>',
        esc_html__( 'Comment', 'generatepress' )
    );

    return $defaults;
}, 20 );

[George]

Yes, that’s it, it was the priority!

This one also works now:

 function placeholder_comment_form_field($fields) {
    $replace_comment = __('Your Comment', 'generatepress');
     
    $fields['comment_field'] = '<p class="comment-form-comment"><label for="comment">' . _x( 'Comment', 'noun' ) .
    '</label><textarea id="comment" name="comment" cols="45" rows="8" placeholder="'.$replace_comment.'" aria-required="true"></textarea></p>';
    
    return $fields;
 }
add_filter( 'comment_form_defaults', 'placeholder_comment_form_field', 20 );

Leo, you are a savior, thank you!

[Leo]

No problem 🙂

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