i want to add the font awesome and texts in the placeholder in the following HTML code at the same time i want to know the process in details:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Student-login</title>
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Shadows+Into+Light' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="main.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/font-awesome.min.css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="body"></div>
<div class="main-form">
<h1>Student Login</h1>
<form class="login">
<input type="text" placeholder="*User name" name="username"></input><br>
<input type="password" placeholder="*Password" name="password"></input><br>
<input type="text" placeholder="*First name" name="first_name"></input><br>
<input type="text" placeholder="*Last name" name="last_name"></input><br>
<select name="gender">
<option value="">Select</option>
<option value="male">Male</option>
<option value="female">Female</option>
</select><br>
<input type="text" placeholder="*E-mail" name="email"></input><br>
<input type="text" placeholder="*Phone number" name="phone"></input><br>
<div class="button"><a href="index.html">Login</a></div>
<div class="button"><a href="#">Submit</a></div>
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
To accomplish this, use FontAwesome as font by setting the CSS
font-familytoFontAwesomeand referring to the icons you want using the FontAwesome Unicode reference.For example, to have
fa-envelopeappear in a placeholder, you can use the following: