| Tip 7 | Providing Hints with Placeholder Text |
Placeholder text provides users with instructions on how they should fill in the fields. It’s not meant to be a replacement for the <label> tag; it’s meant to give users an example.
AwesomeCo’s support site requires users to sign up for an account, and one of the biggest problems with the sign-ups is that users keep trying to use insecure passwords. Let’s use placeholder text (see the following figure) to give users a little guidance on our password requirements. For consistency’s sake, we’ll add placeholder text to the other fields too.
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