Place holder or watermark in TextBox windows 8

Question

I want to show a placeholder text in TextBox when user hasn\'t typed anything and TextBox is idle.

In Andriod it can be done using a

Answer 1

The WinRT Xaml Toolkit has a WatermarkTextbox Control: http://winrtxamltoolkit.codeplex.com/

You can get it via NuGet as well, it comes with several other usefull Controls.

you can use it by referncing the toolkit in your Page´s property´s:

xmlns:xtk="using:WinRTXamlToolkit.Controls"

And the just access the WaterMarkTextBox like this:

Edit.:

Callisto offers a watermark TextBox too: https://github.com/timheuer/callisto

Its just not mentioned in the readme yet.