victorjonsson/jquery-editable — pull request #2 by abrom (2013-06-12 00:40:44+00:00)
Title: Added support for 'empty message'

If the user leaves an 'editable' blank, this change will instead display a pre-defined 'empty message'. If the field is left blank to begin with it also does the same. Empty message is applied through the emptyMessage option

Suggest css as below for styling the 'empty message' text:

[data-is-empty="empty"] { color: #CCCCCC }