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About Placeholder to value
The placeholder is available as a value from the right-click context menu when a placeholder is set in a text field.
Note 1: This extension cannot run on some Google-owned pages (e.g. the Chrome Web Store) due to Chrome's platform restrictions.
Note 2: Some placeholders with special implementations are not supported.
## v1.2.0
- Add: Right-click "insert placeholder" now also works on `contenteditable` elements, including rich-text editors such as ProseMirror and Quill.
- Add: Also reads `aria-placeholder` and the text referenced by `aria-describedby` when a field has no native `placeholder`, so placeholders from some special/custom implementations can now be picked up too.
- Add: Works on local `file://` HTML pages too, once you enable "Allow access to file URLs" for this extension.
- Fix: Dynamic forms that rewrite the placeholder between opening the context menu and clicking the menu item now insert the latest placeholder text.
- Fix: No longer inserts into a stale field after focus has moved elsewhere between opening the context menu and clicking the menu item.
- Change: Menu label is now localized (English/Japanese) via Chrome's built-in i18n.
## v1.1.1
- Fix: Right-click "insert placeholder" now works immediately on tabs that were already open when you install, update, or re-enable the extension — no more reloading pages to pick it up.
- Change: Extension name changed from "Placeholder into value" to "Placeholder to value".
## v1.1.0
- Fix: Works correctly on form fields built with frameworks like React or Vue, and on elements inside Shadow DOM — previously the inserted value could fail to register or the field could go undetected.
- Improve: Inserted text now dispatches a proper `input` event with `inputType` set, so pages that key off `inputType` behave correctly.
- Change: Reduced the extension's permissions from access to all sites to "only when you use it" (activeTab), improving privacy.
- Require Chrome 120 or later.
## v1.0.0
- Stable release: Right-click any input, textarea, or editable field and choose "Placeholder into value" to insert the field's placeholder text as its value.
- Also dispatches an `input` event (in addition to `change`) so frameworks with controlled inputs pick up the inserted value.
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Users
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Ratings
Rating
7 days
+5
+9.3%
0
0.00
30 days
+9
+18.0%
0
0.00
6 months
+12
+25.5%
0
0.00
1 year
+15
+34.1%
0
0.00
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