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HTML & CSS Align placeholder text in text field

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kirsten123456

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Hello! I have put in custom code to my Shopify website. It's a field for Gift Messages, with the following placeholder text:
"To:
Message:
From:"

At the moment, the text isn't aligning to the left.
"To" is aligned to the left, but "Message & From" are indented quite significantly. I can't workout why my code is making this happen. Please help!!!!

You can see how it's displaying here (scroll down to gift message):
https://www.giftfox.com.au/products/neoprene-picnic-blankets

This is the code:

HTML: 
{% if product.tags contains "message" %}
  <p class="line-item-property__field">
     <label for="gift-message">Gift Message</label>
     <textarea id="gift-message" name="properties[Gift Message]" style="width: 800px; text-align:left "placeholder= "To:

                                                                                                Message:

                                                                                                From:">
     </textarea>
  </p>
{% endif %}
 
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Solution
Malcolm
Hey Kirsten!

So what you need is this fancy fella &#10; this will essentially force a line-break which will cause the placeholder text to look something like:

Code: 
To:
Message:
From:

So when &#10; is used it's to signal a line break which will move anything after it to the next line.

Here's what it looks like in your code:

HTML: 
{% if product.tags contains "message" %}
  <p class="line-item-property__field">
     <label for="gift-message">Gift Message</label>
     <textarea id="gift-message" name="properties[Gift Message]" style="width: 800px; text-align:left "placeholder= "To:&#10;Message:&#10;From:">
     </textarea>
  </p>
{% endif %}

I have tested this on the Shopify platform and this was the result:

Screen Shot 2021-06-01 at 9.29.20 PM.png
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Hey Kirsten!

So what you need is this fancy fella &#10; this will essentially force a line-break which will cause the placeholder text to look something like:

Code: 
To:
Message:
From:

So when &#10; is used it's to signal a line break which will move anything after it to the next line.

Here's what it looks like in your code:

HTML: 
{% if product.tags contains "message" %}
  <p class="line-item-property__field">
     <label for="gift-message">Gift Message</label>
     <textarea id="gift-message" name="properties[Gift Message]" style="width: 800px; text-align:left "placeholder= "To:&#10;Message:&#10;From:">
     </textarea>
  </p>
{% endif %}

I have tested this on the Shopify platform and this was the result:

Screen Shot 2021-06-01 at 9.29.20 PM.png
 
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Solution
Malcolm said:
Hey Kirsten!

So what you need is this fancy fella &#10; this will essentially force a line-break which will cause the placeholder text to look something like:

Code: 
To:
Message:
From:

So when &#10; is used it's to signal a line break which will move anything after it to the next line.

Here's what it looks like in your code:

HTML: 
{% if product.tags contains "message" %}
  <p class="line-item-property__field">
     <label for="gift-message">Gift Message</label>
     <textarea id="gift-message" name="properties[Gift Message]" style="width: 800px; text-align:left "placeholder= "To:&#10;Message:&#10;From:">
     </textarea>
  </p>
{% endif %}

I have tested this on the Shopify platform and this was the result:

View attachment 921
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Oh you are a legend, thank you so much! 😊
 
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