# Topic Template Placeholder Text theme component

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-template-placeholder-text-theme-component/149053>\
**Category:** Theme component\
**Created:** [April 23, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-template-placeholder-text-theme-component/149053 "2020-04-23T19:20:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 8:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-template-placeholder-text-theme-component/149053/4 "2020-04-25T08:11:23Z")

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Great idea for a Theme Component!

I’ve gone ahead and submitted a PR to do the following:

- removes need for jQuery
- removes need to worry about timing (use Ember framework & Discourse core, don’t fight them)
- modifies the Composer Model to help achieve the result (as you rightly suggested)

I won’t be upset if you don’t merge it, but hope it helps to see another way of doing things 🙂  
[https://github.com/naidihr/discourse-topic-template-placeholders/pull/1](https://github.com/naidihr/discourse-topic-template-placeholders/pull/1)

(I can’t promise there are no bugs, but happy to follow up on any ! 🤠 )

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