Change Placeholder Text using jQuery

I am using a jQuery placeholder plugin(https://github.com/danielstocks/jQuery-Placeholder). I need to change the placeholder text with the change in dropdown menu. But it is not changing. Here is the code:

$(function () {
    $('input[placeholder], textarea[placeholder]').placeholder();
    $('#serMemdd').change(function () {
        var k = $(this).val();
        if (k == 1) {
            $("#serMemtb").attr("placeholder", "Type a name (Lastname, Firstname)").placeholder();
        }
        else if (k == 2) {
            $("#serMemtb").attr("placeholder", "Type an ID").placeholder();
        }
        else if (k == 3) {
            $("#serMemtb").attr("placeholder", "Type a Location").placeholder();
        }
    });
});

My Html:

<div class="filterbox">
        <select name="ddselect" id="serMemdd">
            <option value="1" selected="selected">Search by Name</option>
            <option value="2">Search by ID</option>
            <option value="3">Search by Location</option>
        </select>
        <input id="serMemtb" type="text" style="width: 490px" placeholder="Type a name    (Lastname, Firstname)" />
        <input id="seMemBut" type="button" value="Search" />
    </div>

Can anyone figure this out?

$(document).ready(function(){ 
  $('form').find("input[type=textarea], input[type=password], textarea").each(function(ev)
  {
      if(!$(this).val()) { 
     $(this).attr("placeholder", "Type your answer here");
  }
  });
});

Copy and paste this code in your js file, this will change all placeholder text from whole site.

You can use following code to update a placeholder by id:

$("#serMemtb").attr("placeholder", "Type a Location").val("").focus().blur();

simply you can use

$("#yourtextboxid").attr("placeholder", "variable");

where, if variable is string then you can use like above, if it is variable replace it with the name like "variable" with out double quotes.

eg: $("#youtextboxid").attr("placeholder", variable); it will work.

The plugin doesn't look very robust. If you call .placeholder() again, it creates a new Placeholder instance while events are still bound to the old one.

Looking at the code, it looks like you could do:

$("#serMemtb").attr("placeholder", "Type a name (Lastname, Firstname)").blur();

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EDIT

placeholder is an HTML5 attribute, guess who's not supporting it?

Your plugin doesn't really seem to help you overcome the fact that IE doesn't support it, so while my solution works, your plugin doesn't. Why don't you find one that does.

$(this).val() is a string. Use parseInt($(this).val(), 10) or check for '1'. The ten is to denote base 10.

$(function () {
    $('input[placeholder], textarea[placeholder]').blur();
    $('#serMemdd').change(function () {
        var k = $(this).val();
        if (k == '1') {
            $("#serMemtb").attr("placeholder", "Type a name (Lastname, Firstname)").blur();
        }
        else if (k == '2') {
            $("#serMemtb").attr("placeholder", "Type an ID").blur();
        }
        else if (k == '3') {
            $("#serMemtb").attr("placeholder", "Type a Location").blur();
        }
    });
});

Or

$(function () {
    $('input[placeholder], textarea[placeholder]').placeholder();
    $('#serMemdd').change(function () {
        var k = parseInt($(this).val(), 10);
        if (k == 1) {
            $("#serMemtb").attr("placeholder", "Type a name (Lastname, Firstname)").blur();
        }
        else if (k == 2) {
            $("#serMemtb").attr("placeholder", "Type an ID").blur();
        }
        else if (k == 3) {
            $("#serMemtb").attr("placeholder", "Type a Location").blur();
        }
    });
});

Other Plugins

ori has brought to my attention that the plugin you are using does not overcome IEs HTML failure.

Try something like this: http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/input-placeholder

$(document).ready(function(){ 
     $("input[type=search]").attr("placeholder","this is a test");
});

working example of dynamic placeholder using Javascript and Jquery http://jsfiddle.net/ogk2L14n/1/

<input type="text" id="textbox">
 <select id="selection" onchange="changeplh()">
     <option>one</option>
     <option>two</option>
     <option>three</option>
    </select>

function changeplh(){
    debugger;
 var sel = document.getElementById("selection");
    var textbx = document.getElementById("textbox");
    var indexe = sel.selectedIndex;

    if(indexe == 0) { 
     $("#textbox").attr("placeholder", "age");

}
       if(indexe == 1) { 
     $("#textbox").attr("placeholder", "name");
}
}

change placeholder text using jquery

try this

$('#selector').attr("placeholder", "Type placeholder");

If the input is inside the div than you can try this:

$('#div_id input').attr("placeholder", "placeholder text");

try this

$('#Selector_ID').attr("placeholder", "your Placeholder");

$(document).ready(function(){ 
  $('form').find("input[type=search]").each(function(ev)
  {
     $(this).attr("placeholder", "Search Whatever you want");
  });
});

Moving your first line to the bottom does it for me: http://jsfiddle.net/tcloninger/SEmNX/

$(function () {
    $('#serMemdd').change(function () {
        var k = $(this).val();
        if (k == 1) {
            $("#serMemtb").attr("placeholder", "Type a name (Lastname, Firstname)").placeholder();
        }
        else if (k == 2) {
            $("#serMemtb").attr("placeholder", "Type an ID").placeholder();
        }
        else if (k == 3) {
            $("#serMemtb").attr("placeholder", "Type a Location").placeholder();
        }
    });
    $('input[placeholder], textarea[placeholder]').placeholder();
});

this worked for me:

jQuery('form').attr("placeholder","Wert eingeben");

but now this don't work:

// Prioritize "important" elements on medium.
			skel.on('+medium -medium', function() {
				jQuery.prioritize(
					'.important\\28 medium\\29',
					skel.breakpoint('medium').active
				);
			});