fail to change placeholder color with Bootstrap 3

Question

Two questions:

1. I am trying to make the placeholder text white. But it doesn\'t work. I am using Bootstrap 3. JSFiddle demo

2. Another question is h

Answer 1

A Possible Gotcha

Recommended Sanity Check - Make sure to add the form-control class to your inputs.

If you have bootstrap css loaded on your page, but your inputs don't have the
class="form-control" then placeholder CSS selector won't apply to them.

Example markup from the docs:

I know this didn't apply to the OP's markup but as I missed this at first and spent a little bit of effort trying to debug it, I'm posting this answer to help others.