# Placeholder

Blazor Edition provides a set of native UI controls built for Blazor such as FlexGrid, Chart, ListView, and input controls including AutoComplete and ComboBox.

## Content



The placeholder provides contextual clues of what value users should enter in a control. MaskedTextBox lets you display a placeholder text in the MaskedTextBox control when nothing is selected or entered in it. You can add a placeholder text to the MaskedtextBox control using **Placeholder** property of the **C1MaskedTextBox** class. For example, in the following example, we added "Enter Phone Number" as a placeholder text in the MaskedtextBox control to prompts the user to enter a phone number in it.

![Placeholder in Masked TextBox](https://cdn.mescius.io/document-site-files/images/f5b600ba-f1a7-4f89-a20c-aa6c0c35880d/images/mtb-placeholder.png)

When you click within the control and enter text, you can notice that the Placeholder disappears.

The following code shows the usage of the **Placeholder** property to add a placeholder text in the MaskedtextBox control:

```razor
<C1MaskedTextBox Placeholder="Enter Phone number"></C1MaskedTextBox>
```