Change Placeholder Text using jQuery

$(document).ready(function(){ 
  $('form').find("input[type=textarea], input[type=password], textarea").each(function(ev)
  {
      if(!$(this).val()) { 
     $(this).attr("placeholder", "Type your answer here");
  }
  });
});

Copy and paste this code in your js file, this will change all placeholder text from whole site.

You can use following code to update a placeholder by id:

$("#serMemtb").attr("placeholder", "Type a Location").val("").focus().blur();

simply you can use

$("#yourtextboxid").attr("placeholder", "variable");

where, if variable is string then you can use like above, if it is variable replace it with the name like "variable" with out double quotes.

eg: $("#youtextboxid").attr("placeholder", variable); it will work.

The plugin doesn't look very robust. If you call .placeholder() again, it creates a new Placeholder instance while events are still bound to the old one.

Looking at the code, it looks like you could do:

$("#serMemtb").attr("placeholder", "Type a name (Lastname, Firstname)").blur();

EDIT

placeholder is an HTML5 attribute, guess who's not supporting it?

Your plugin doesn't really seem to help you overcome the fact that IE doesn't support it, so while my solution works, your plugin doesn't. Why don't you find one that does.

$(this).val() is a string. Use parseInt($(this).val(), 10) or check for '1'. The ten is to denote base 10.

$(function () {
    $('input[placeholder], textarea[placeholder]').blur();
    $('#serMemdd').change(function () {
        var k = $(this).val();
        if (k == '1') {
            $("#serMemtb").attr("placeholder", "Type a name (Lastname, Firstname)").blur();
        }
        else if (k == '2') {
            $("#serMemtb").attr("placeholder", "Type an ID").blur();
        }
        else if (k == '3') {
            $("#serMemtb").attr("placeholder", "Type a Location").blur();
        }
    });
});

Or

$(function () {
    $('input[placeholder], textarea[placeholder]').placeholder();
    $('#serMemdd').change(function () {
        var k = parseInt($(this).val(), 10);
        if (k == 1) {
            $("#serMemtb").attr("placeholder", "Type a name (Lastname, Firstname)").blur();
        }
        else if (k == 2) {
            $("#serMemtb").attr("placeholder", "Type an ID").blur();
        }
        else if (k == 3) {
            $("#serMemtb").attr("placeholder", "Type a Location").blur();
        }
    });
});

Other Plugins

ori has brought to my attention that the plugin you are using does not overcome IEs HTML failure.

Try something like this: http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/input-placeholder