Finding an element using placeholder in Protractor?

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<input _ngcontent-c6="" formcontrolname="password" 
    name="password" onblur="this.placeholder = 'Password'" 
    onfocus="this.placeholder = ''" 
    placeholder="Password" 
    required="" type="password" 
    ng-reflect-required="" ng-reflect-name="password" 
    class="ng-pristine ng-invalid ng-touched">

What is the best way to find an element: placeholder = "Enter Username"?

Scenario: find an element using Snippet above User clicks on the "Enter Name" box, another window pops-up for entering a name.

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2 Answers

For placeholder you can use:

element(by.css('[placeholder = "Password"]'));
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You can use XPath like this: 

.//input[@placeholder='Enter Username']
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