title: Font color of placeholder difference between Firefox 23.0.1 Chrome 23.0.1271.64 and IE 8
body: <p>I changed the placeholder font color of an input field to blue, I've tested it in Chrome, it's color is blue. But in FF 23.0.1, the color is slightly "lighter" than blue.</p>
  
  <p>See the contrast below, note the "Month" is within a span and color is also blue:</p>
  
  <p>In Chrome, it's fine, see below:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JTNJM.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>However, in firefox 23.0.1, looked like this:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/QUXW9.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>In IE8, not display:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/o0zyk.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Note the difference of the color.</p>
  
  <p>Below is the css code I am using:</p>
  
  <pre><code>.month_span { color: blue; }
  .input::-webkit-input-placeholder { color:blue}
  .input::-moz-placeholder { color:blue; } /* FF 19+ */
  .input:-moz-placeholder { color:#bbb; } /* FF 18- */
  .input:-ms-input-placeholder { color:#bbb; }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My Question:1. Why the color is lighter in FF? 2. How to display placeholder value in IE?</p>