diff --git a/demo/components/Playground.tsx b/demo/components/Playground.tsx
index 3492b81f..b6c5708f 100644
--- a/demo/components/Playground.tsx
+++ b/demo/components/Playground.tsx
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import {
     type RenderPreview,
     type ToolbarGroupData,
     type UseMarkdownEditorProps,
+    WysiwygPlaceholderOptions,
     logger,
     markupToolbarConfigs,
     useMarkdownEditor,
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@ export type PlaygroundProps = {
     breaks?: boolean;
     linkify?: boolean;
     linkifyTlds?: string | string[];
+    placeholderOptions?: WysiwygPlaceholderOptions;
     sanitizeHtml?: boolean;
     prepareRawMarkup?: boolean;
     splitModeOrientation?: 'horizontal' | 'vertical' | false;
@@ -139,6 +141,7 @@ export const Playground = React.memo<PlaygroundProps>((props) => {
         wysiwygCommandMenuConfig,
         markupConfigExtensions,
         markupToolbarConfig,
+        placeholderOptions,
         escapeConfig,
         enableSubmitInPreview,
         hidePreviewAfterSubmit,
@@ -185,6 +188,9 @@ export const Playground = React.memo<PlaygroundProps>((props) => {
             needToSetDimensionsForUploadedImages,
             renderPreview: renderPreviewDefined ? renderPreview : undefined,
             fileUploadHandler,
+            wysiwygConfig: {
+                placeholderOptions: placeholderOptions,
+            },
             experimental: {
                 ...experimental,
                 directiveSyntax,
diff --git a/src/bundle/types.ts b/src/bundle/types.ts
index 34d17136..b25ad335 100644
--- a/src/bundle/types.ts
+++ b/src/bundle/types.ts
@@ -26,6 +26,17 @@ export type RenderPreview = (params: RenderPreviewParams) => ReactNode;
 
 export type ParseInsertedUrlAsImage = (text: string) => {imageUrl: string; title?: string} | null;
 
+export type WysiwygPlaceholderOptions = {
+    value?: string | (() => string);
+    /** Default – empty-doc 
+    Values:
+    - 'empty-doc' – The placeholder will only be shown when the document is completely empty;
+    - 'empty-row-top-level' – The placeholder will be displayed in an empty line that is at the top level of the document structure;
+    - 'empty-row' – The placeholder will be shown in any empty line within the document, regardless of its nesting level.
+    */
+    behavior?: 'empty-doc' | 'empty-row-top-level' | 'empty-row';
+};
+
 export type MarkdownEditorMdOptions = {
     html?: boolean;
     breaks?: boolean;
@@ -148,6 +159,7 @@ export type MarkdownEditorWysiwygConfig = {
     extensions?: Extension;
     extensionOptions?: ExtensionsOptions;
     escapeConfig?: EscapeConfig;
+    placeholderOptions?: WysiwygPlaceholderOptions;
 };
 
 // [major] TODO: remove generic type
diff --git a/src/bundle/useMarkdownEditor.ts b/src/bundle/useMarkdownEditor.ts
index b44cb463..6cdb1a7c 100644
--- a/src/bundle/useMarkdownEditor.ts
+++ b/src/bundle/useMarkdownEditor.ts
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ export function useMarkdownEditor<T extends object = {}>(
                     editor.emit('submit', null);
                     return true;
                 },
+                placeholderOptions: wysiwygConfig.placeholderOptions,
                 mdBreaks: breaks,
                 fileUploadHandler: uploadFile,
                 needToSetDimensionsForUploadedImages,
diff --git a/src/bundle/wysiwyg-preset.ts b/src/bundle/wysiwyg-preset.ts
index 42874148..af43bc4a 100644
--- a/src/bundle/wysiwyg-preset.ts
+++ b/src/bundle/wysiwyg-preset.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import type {FileUploadHandler} from '../utils/upload';
 
 import {wCommandMenuConfigByPreset, wSelectionMenuConfigByPreset} from './config/wysiwyg';
 import {emojiDefs} from './emoji';
-import type {MarkdownEditorPreset} from './types';
+import type {MarkdownEditorPreset, WysiwygPlaceholderOptions} from './types';
 
 const DEFAULT_IGNORED_KEYS = ['Tab', 'Shift-Tab'] as const;
 
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ export type BundlePresetOptions = ExtensionsOptions &
         preset: MarkdownEditorPreset;
         mdBreaks?: boolean;
         fileUploadHandler?: FileUploadHandler;
+        placeholderOptions?: WysiwygPlaceholderOptions;
         /**
          * If we need to set dimensions for uploaded images
          *
@@ -63,9 +64,22 @@ export const BundlePreset: ExtensionAuto<BundlePresetOptions> = (builder, opts)
         baseSchema: {
             paragraphKey: f.toPM(A.Text),
             paragraphPlaceholder: (node: Node, parent?: Node | null) => {
-                const isDocEmpty =
-                    !node.text && parent?.type.name === BaseNode.Doc && parent.childCount === 1;
-                return isDocEmpty ? i18nPlaceholder('doc_empty') : null;
+                const {value, behavior} = opts.placeholderOptions || {};
+
+                const emptyEntries = {
+                    'empty-row': !node.text,
+                    'empty-row-top-level': !node.text && parent?.type.name === BaseNode.Doc,
+                    'empty-doc':
+                        !node.text && parent?.type.name === BaseNode.Doc && parent.childCount === 1,
+                };
+
+                const showPlaceholder = emptyEntries[behavior || 'empty-doc'];
+
+                if (!showPlaceholder) return null;
+
+                return typeof value === 'function'
+                    ? value()
+                    : value ?? i18nPlaceholder('doc_empty');
             },
             ...opts.baseSchema,
         },