fontawesome user in placeholder

Question

How To Put fontawesome in placeholder. Here is my code:

<div class="form-group">         
    <input class="form-control" placeholder="username" id="inputdefault" type="text" />
    <input class="form-control" placeholder="password" id="inputdefault" type="text" />
</div>

Answer 1

Try this way:

input {
  padding:10px;
	font-family: FontAwesome;
   
}

<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<form role="form">
  <div class="form-group">
    <input type="text" class="form-control empty" id="iconified" placeholder="&#xf2ba">
  </div>
</form>