Placeholder text not showing in Notes component

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My app’s URL: https://toddl.glideapp.io/
The placeholder text of the Notes component in my Form is not showing (it just shows the generic “add a new note”)
Anyone else experiencing this bug?

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I’ve never been a big fan of the notes component because it doesn’t show formatting once you change the note. I’ve recently switched my notes components to text entry components. I feel it looks better and expands as needed.

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@StephM The placeholder is what you see when you open the Note and it’s empty:

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Precisely. And it is showing the generic text, not the one that I’ve specified in the builder.

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Thanks Jeff, makes sense. I did just that and switched to text entry. The only thing is it looks less like a text box, but at least the placeholder works now.

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Ah. And the other thing is the placeholder gets deleted once the user types in their answer. Is there any way to make this text stay?

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Why would you want the placeholder text to stay if the user already filled in an answer? Wouldn’t that be confusing? How would you expect that to look?

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The placeholder text would be like a pre-filled answer. The user would not actually need to type anything, or maybe they could just modify or add some text to it.

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What you are describing would be default text vs. placeholder. Placeholder universally functions as grayed out text that shows only when the field is empty.

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@StephM Could you share that app and tell me where to find that Notes component?

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Ahh ok, thanks for clarifying @Deena and sorry for the confusion @Mark! Do you happen to know if there is any way to have default text in notes or text entry components instead of placeholder?

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Never mind, I ended up getting rid of the notes component and using text entry instead. Thanks anyway.

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