# Placeholder

## Content



Placeholder provides contextual clues of what value an end-users should enter in a control. MultiColumnCombo lets you display a placeholder or watermark text in the control when nothing is selected or displayed in it. You can add a placeholder to the MultiColumnCombo control using [Placeholder](/componentone/docs/win/online-multicolumncombo/) property of the [C1MultiColumnCombo](/componentone/docs/win/online-multicolumncombo/) class, which prompts user to select items from the dropdown.

![Placeholder in MultiColumnCombo control](https://cdn.mescius.io/document-site-files/images/186267ac-7e18-4bb3-aa58-4779d3437a3a/images/multicolumncombo-placeholder.png)

The following code shows the usage of the Placeholder property to add a watermark text in the MultiColumnCombo control:

```csharp
mcc.Placeholder = "Select Items";
```