Show placeholder characters always

[FirstVertex]

Hi, I've been evaluating various masked input libraries for the last couple of days, and came across Maska, which looks promising.

The only issue is that I can't seem to get the placeholder characters to always be visible, even when the input is empty, or partially filled. This is how our old library (ngx-mask) works (triggered by input of { showMaskTyped: true } and I noticed imask has a similar feature which is activated with { lazy: false }. It has also an input for { placeholderCharacter: ' ' } which by default is _ and I was able to customize to "space" to match our design system requirements.

An example would be, for a SSN input, it would always show the dashes, when empty, partially filled, or filled.

[   -  -    ]    <- empty
[123-4 -    ]    <- partial
[123-45-6789]    <- filled

If I somehow missed how this is triggered with the current api, please direct me to the doc for it, otherwise, thanks in advance for considering it as a new feature ✌️

[jamiedoris]

I'm also looking for this feature -- migrating from vue-text-mask, which has a similar option.

[beholdr]

Implementing placeholder option for mask in pretty hard task, especially for dynamic and complex ones. I have no plans for such feature.