Question

Please see the code below, the CSS for the placeholder does not work in the Firefox (latest version), but it works fine with the Chrome. How can I fix it for Firefox?

There are multiple input colors for the fields, but I only one color for the placeholder, so I do not want to specify any class name in the moz-placeholder property, so that it applies to all input fields.

HTML:

<div class="row">
    <input type="text" placeholder="some text asdf" value="" />
</div>

CSS:

::-webkit-input-placeholder { color:red; }
::-moz-placeholder { color:red; }
input:-moz-placeholder { color:red; }

.row input[type="text"]{
     color: blue;     
}

Demo:
http://jsfiddle.net/C6fjh/

Answer 1

I’ts working, it’s just that the last rule is considered more specific by Firefox. Try this:

::-webkit-input-placeholder { color:red; }
.row input[type="text"]::-moz-placeholder { color:red; }
.row input[type="text"]:-moz-placeholder { color:red; }

.row input[type="text"] {
     color: blue;     
}

See this fiddle for a working demo.

I’m unsure where the difference in browsers comes from, or which one is “correct”. A similar experiment with a tag and :hover pseudo class shows the same behavior in both FF and Chrome: both will ignore the pseudo class color if the element’s selector is more specific (and if you make the same change as I suggested above you get the same (expected?) behavior in both Chrome and FF).