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Is there a way to select the text input values first letter and change its color via CSS in the stylesheet? so for example, I have 
functionremote_input_updater(element, scope) {
  var scope = typeof scope !== 'undefined' ?  scope : document;
  var remote_id = element.getAttribute('form-remote-input');
  var remote_element = scope.querySelector("#" + remote_id);
  // Load initial value
  element.textContent = remote_element.value;
  // Add blur event updater var update_remote = function(e){
    remote_element.value = element.textContent;
    if(element.textContent == "") { // Remove extra <br>s that get addedwhile (element.firstChild) {
        element.removeChild(element.firstChild);
      }
    }
  }
  element.addEventListener('blur', update_remote);
};

[].forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('[form-remote-input]'), function(element){remote_input_updater(element)});
[contenteditable] {
  color: #000;
  border: 1px solid black;
  padding: 3px;
  min-height: 1.2em;
}

[contenteditable]:empty::before{
    content: attr(data-placeholder);
    color: #666;
}

[contenteditable=true]:empty:focus::before{
    content: "\00a0";
}

[contenteditable]:focus {
  outline: none;
}

/* Forces single line */.text[contenteditable] br{
    display:none;
}

.text[contenteditable] * {
  display: inline;
}

#first-red::first-letter {
  color: #F00;
}
<body><divclass="text"id="first-red"data-placeholder="This is essentially an input"contenteditable="true"form-remote-input="remote-id"><!-- Must be no whitespace in here --></div><inputtype="hidden"id="remote-id" /></body>

Solution 2:

I don’t think that input boxes will allow changing the style of the first letter – it seems the OS does not make it possible. So you can make a div with contentEditable property equal to "true", and get its content with JavaScript, or a small workaround with two inputs aligned horizontally, or something. See this:

<html><head>
        .leftInput{
            border-bottom: 1px solid black;
            border-left: 1px solid black;
            border-top: 1px solid black;
            border-right: 0px;
            width:10px;
            color:red;
        }
        .rightInput{
            border-bottom: 1px solid black;
            border-right: 1px solid black;
            border-top: 1px solid black;
            border-left: 0px;
            margin-left: 0px;
        }
    </head><body><inputtype="text"name="address"value="* "class="leftInput" /><inputtype="text"name="address"value="Property Address :"class="rightInput" /></body></html>

.leftInput {
    border-bottom: 1px solid black;
    border-left: 1px solid black;
    border-top: 1px solid black;
    border-right: 0px;
    width: 10px;
    color: red;
}
.rightInput {
    border-bottom: 1px solid black;
    border-right: 1px solid black;
    border-top: 1px solid black;
    border-left: 0px;
    margin-left: 0px;
}
<inputtype="text"name="address"value="* "class="leftInput"
/><inputtype="text"name="address"value="Property Address :"class="rightInput" />

Solution 3:

You cant do it by using an "input tag".

You have to use a div tag (cf: How do I make an editable DIV look like a text field?), then use another tag (like div) only for your first char, then apply your style on it.

<html><head><style>#input {
        -moz-appearance: textfield;
        -webkit-appearance: textfield;
        background-color: white;
        background-color: -moz-field;
        border: 1px solid darkgray;
        box-shadow: 1px1px1px0 lightgray inset;  
        font: -moz-field;
        font: -webkit-small-control;
        margin-top: 5px;
        padding: 2px3px;
        width: 398px;    
    }
    </style></head><body><divid="input"contenteditable><spanstyle="color: red;">*</span>Property Address :</div></body></html>

Another solution by DivinusVox (works only if the first char is a letter):

<html><head><styletype='text/css'>#input:first-letter {
        color: red;
    }

    #input {
        -moz-appearance: textfield;
        -webkit-appearance: textfield;
        background-color: white;
        background-color: -moz-field;
        border: 1px solid darkgray;
        box-shadow: 1px1px1px0 lightgray inset;  
        font: -moz-field;
        font: -webkit-small-control;
        margin-top: 5px;
        padding: 2px3px;
        width: 398px;    
    }
    </style></head><body><divid="input"contenteditable>o Property Address :</div></body></html>

Solution 4:

OK try to give your input a padding, wrap your input in a relative positioned div and then add a absolut positioned div with your " * " inside this padding of your textbox.

with jQuery or javascript hide the div on focus and show it again on blur if the value is empty

<div style="position: relative">
  <input type="text" style="padding-left: 20px;" name="address" value="Property Address :" onfocus="$('#placeholder1').hide();" onblur="if ($(this).val() == '') {$('#placeholder1').show();}" />
  <div id="placeholder1" style="position: absolute; top: XXpx; left: XXpx; color: #123456;">*</div>
</div>

padding, top and left value is just an example. you have to find the right values

Solution 5:

You can do this by javascript and jquery like this

var firstLetter =  $("input").val().charAt(0);
varval = $("input").val();
$("input").val(val.substr(1));
var span = "<span style='color:red'>" + firstLetter + "</span>";
$(span).insertBefore("input");

jsfiddle

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