# Can we change placeholder of grafana variable field?

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/can-we-change-placeholder-of-grafana-variable-field/127814>\
**Category:** Grafana\
**Tags:** templating\
**Created:** [August 5, 2024, 6:49am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/can-we-change-placeholder-of-grafana-variable-field/127814 "2024-08-05T06:49:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![sayyadsalim4100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@sayyadsalim4100](https://community.grafana.com/u/sayyadsalim4100)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 6:49am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/can-we-change-placeholder-of-grafana-variable-field/127814/1 "2024-08-05T06:49:50Z")

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Can we change placeholder of grafana variable field?  
Example: default it shows “Enter variable value” can we change this to “Enter Name” ?  
Also is it possible to change the color of variable label ?  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/3X/3/d/3d67137fb185ab88c6e50bd19a31be5c7194cad5.png)

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**Author:** ![ebabeshko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9d8465/32.png) [@ebabeshko](https://community.grafana.com/u/ebabeshko)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 8:30am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/can-we-change-placeholder-of-grafana-variable-field/127814/2 "2024-08-05T08:30:15Z")

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That could be done only by changing text “Enter variable value” in .js files in public/build folder to the one you need:

![Changed](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/3X/a/7/a7055ce2c226557a11484002d1fa95be6b349d23.png)

Of course it will affect all variables, will be broken after version update etc.

For variable manipulation I would recommend to use [Business Variable](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/volkovlabs-variable-panel/) plugin. It doesn’t provide what you ask in this topic (text customization, color change), but at least you can put variable field in any place of your dashboard.

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**Author:** ![sayyadsalim4100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@sayyadsalim4100](https://community.grafana.com/u/sayyadsalim4100)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2024, 9:38am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/can-we-change-placeholder-of-grafana-variable-field/127814/3 "2024-08-08T09:38:05Z")

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Thanks @ebabeshko .

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**Author:** ![yosiasz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/yosiasz/32/45847_2.png) [@yosiasz](https://community.grafana.com/u/yosiasz)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/can-we-change-placeholder-of-grafana-variable-field/127814/5 "2024-08-11T17:03:56Z")

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you can do both using business text plugin or just plain old text plugin

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/3X/2/a/2af3a39af2f9434ae67efcda0c2f075685fbd93b.png)