How can i add icon in placeholder

Question

I create a mail form and i want to add an icon in placeholder as like as the picture below. How can i add this?

Solution

Please check this link JsFiddle

HTML:

<!-- Search, search, search and search! -->
<input type="search" name="search" placeholder="search" rel="search" />

CSS:

input {
    background-image: url(https://cdn4.iconfinder.com/data/icons/round-mobile-ui-set/512/letter-message-email-mail-20.png);
    background-position: 10px center;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    border: 1px solid #ccc;

    -webkit-border-radius: 4px;
    -moz-border-radius: 4px;
    -ms-border-radius: 4px;
    -o-border-radius: 4px;
    border-radius: 4px;

    padding: 10px 5px 10px 20px;
    text-indent: 20px;

    -webkit-transition: all 0.2s;
    -moz-transition: all 2s;
    transition: all 0.2s;

    width: 200px;
}

How to add awesome icon in placeholder, Please check this jsFiddle

Comments

[Nitesh Goyal]

Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/13761654/…

[Lalji Tadhani]

Possible duplicate of Use Font Awesome Icon in Placeholder

[Thanh Nguyen]

Possible duplicate of HTML5 image icon to input placeholder

[xakar]

is this only way with backgraound image?