Add placeholder in contact form 7 dropdown select box

I am looking for this too. I found someone reference the CF7 website and say it was listed there that placeholders were possible, but I navigate to the link and search to find nothing… Disappointed. You would think if you select the “Insert a blank item as the first option” field and then use placeholder… It could write it out disabling the first item as in above. Or at a minimum ADD a disable first option field in the generator.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by leaninonlife.

Found this today:

// Modify multiple selects - Target each one specifically
function my_wpcf7_form_elements($html) {
	function ov3rfly_replace_include_blank($name, $text, &$html) {
		$matches = false;
		preg_match('/<select name="' . $name . '"[^>]*>(.*)<\/select>/iU', $html, $matches);
		if ($matches) {
			$select = str_replace('<option value="">---</option>', '<option value="">' . $text . '</option>', $matches[0]);
			$html = preg_replace('/<select name="' . $name . '"[^>]*>(.*)<\/select>/iU', $select, $html);
		}
		add_filter('wpcf7_form_elements', 'my_wpcf7_form_elements');
	}
	ov3rfly_replace_include_blank('menu-29', '--Select--', $html);
	// ov3rfly_replace_include_blank('menu-614', 'Choose country', $html);
        // ov3rfly_replace_include_blank('menu-2', 'Some other', $html);
	// ov3rfly_replace_include_blank('menu-64', 'Choose country', $html);
        // ov3rfly_replace_include_blank('menu-9', 'Some Some Other', $html);
	// ov3rfly_replace_include_blank('menu-14', 'Choose country', $html);
	return $html;
}
add_filter('wpcf7_form_elements', 'my_wpcf7_form_elements');