# 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: ![JQ331](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@JQ331](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JQ331)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-template-placeholder-text-theme-component/149053/45 "2020-08-29T16:35:27Z")

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This theme component is really cool. I’ve been trying to find a way to give my users a little more guidance when they create a topic, and would like to make the experience more like completing a [form](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-users-complete-form-when-creating-a-topic/162378).

Right now, this theme component makes it so that all text that is preloaded in a topic is a single placeholder. So, once a user types anything in the topic composer, all of the placeholder text goes away.

Would it be possible to have it so that there are different placeholders on the page? For example, the topic template could load a separate placeholder for:

“Name”

* * *

“Location”

* * *

“Issue”

So that when the users types in their name, the other placeholders for Location and Issue stay there, until the user types in their spots too?

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