Answers.Body: <blockquote>
    <p>When editing the field, I have tried setting the 'Placeholder Text' as {title}, but this does not work - it displays "{title}"!</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Yeah, those placeholder text fields aren't dynamically parsed as Twig templates like others (Entry URL Format, etc.).</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>I don't want to create a new custom type of field as it seems a little heavy handed for this use case.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Unfortunately that's all that is coming to mind for me for this use-case.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Thanks Brad. Is it possible to create such a field that still stores the data exactly as it would if it was a regular text field? i.e. so if I switched it from my custom field back into a 'regular' text field, I wouldn't loose all my values in the DB?
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Answers.Text: Assuming the custom field uses the same type and size datatype in the database, the conversion should happen automatically.
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Body: <p>I have a plain text field that encourages content editors to write a more detailed description of a piece of content.</p>
  
  <p>However, on the front-end the template will use the post title by default if this is not supplied.</p>
  
  <p>I would like the placeholder text for this optional plain text field to represent the reality of this in the Dashboard - i.e. to display the title field as the placeholder if the field has not otherwise been used.</p>
  
  <p>When editing the field, I have tried setting the 'Placeholder Text' as <code>{title}</code>, but this does not work - it displays "{title}"!</p>
  
  <p>Is this possible? I don't want to create a new custom type of field as it seems a little heavy handed for this use case.</p>
  
Tags: <fieldtypes><dashboard>
Title: Dynamic placeholder text in 'Plain text' field type
ThreadText: # Dynamic placeholder text in 'Plain text' field type
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-03-01)
  
  I have a plain text field that encourages content editors to write a more detailed description of a piece of content.
  
  However, on the front-end the template will use the post title by default if this is not supplied.
  
  I would like the placeholder text for this optional plain text field to represent the reality of this in the Dashboard - i.e. to display the title field as the placeholder if the field has not otherwise been used.
  
  When editing the field, I have tried setting the 'Placeholder Text' as `{title}`, but this does not work - it displays "{title}"!
  
  Is this possible? I don't want to create a new custom type of field as it seems a little heavy handed for this use case.
  
  **Tags:** fieldtypes, dashboard
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-03-01. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  > When editing the field, I have tried setting the 'Placeholder Text' as {title}, but this does not work - it displays "{title}"!
  
  Yeah, those placeholder text fields aren't dynamically parsed as Twig templates like others (Entry URL Format, etc.).
  
  > I don't want to create a new custom type of field as it seems a little heavy handed for this use case.
  
  Unfortunately that's all that is coming to mind for me for this use-case.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thanks username_1. Is it possible to create such a field that still stores the data exactly as it would if it was a regular text field? i.e. so if I switched it from my custom field back into a 'regular' text field, I wouldn't loose all my values in the DB?  
  > **username_1**: Assuming the custom field uses the same type and size datatype in the database, the conversion should happen automatically.  
  
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