# Set placeholder in multi-picker in Ionic2

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/set-placeholder-in-multi-picker-in-ionic2/89053>\
**Category:** ionic-v3\
**Created:** [May 5, 2017, 10:04am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/set-placeholder-in-multi-picker-in-ionic2/89053 "2017-05-05T10:04:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 5, 2017, 10:04am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/set-placeholder-in-multi-picker-in-ionic2/89053/1 "2017-05-05T10:04:19Z")

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I want to set a placeholder in multi-picker. I implemented the picker using the below github url:

[https://github.com/raychenfj/ion-multi-picker](https://github.com/raychenfj/ion-multi-picker)

I tried setting the text as default value but it didn’t worked. It’s not getting rendered into the DOM.