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Global styles: add :placeholder pseudo-element support for textInput #73692

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Global styles: add pseudo-element support
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Pseudo element, not selector
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion docs/how-to-guides/themes/global-settings-and-styles.md
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{% end %}
##### Element pseudo selectors

Pseudo selectors `:hover`, `:focus`, `:focus-visible`, `:visited`, `:active`, `:link`, `:any-link` are supported by Gutenberg.
Pseudo selectors `:hover`, `:focus`, `:focus-visible`, `:visited`, `:active`, `:link`, `:any-link`, `:placeholder` are supported by Gutenberg.

```json
"elements": {
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions lib/class-wp-theme-json-gutenberg.php
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* @since 6.1.0
* @since 6.2.0 Added support for `:link` and `:any-link`.
* @since 6.8.0 Added support for `:focus-visible`.
* @since #.#.# Added support for `::placeholder`.
*/
const VALID_ELEMENT_PSEUDO_SELECTORS = array(
'link' => array( ':link', ':any-link', ':visited', ':hover', ':focus', ':focus-visible', ':active' ),

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'button' => array( ':link', ':any-link', ':visited', ':hover', ':focus', ':focus-visible', ':active' ),

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'textInput' => array( ':hover', ':focus', ':focus-visible', '::placeholder' ),
);

/**
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6 changes: 5 additions & 1 deletion schemas/json/theme.json
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},
":visited": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/stylesPropertiesComplete"
},
"::placeholder": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/stylesPropertiesComplete"
}
}
},
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":focus-visible",
":hover",
":link",
":visited"
":visited",
"::placeholder"
]
},
"stylesElementsPropertiesComplete": {
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