Retrieve The "placeholder" Value With Javascript In Ie Without Jquery

I have some Javascript code that checks if a browser supports Placeholders and if it doesn't it creates them itself. Now this works on some older browsers but not all, especially I

Solution 1:

If you're not sure if you're able to use certain functionality/attributes, try caniuse.com - you'll notice that placeholder is not available in IE9.

Try using getAttribute("placeholder")

getAttribute() returns the value of the named attribute on the specified element. If the named attribute does not exist, the value returned will either be null or "" (the empty string); see Notes for details.

EXAMPLE

HTML

<inputid="demo" placeholder="Rawr" />

JavaScript

var placeholder = document.getElementById("demo").getAttribute("placeholder");
console.log(placeholder);