diff --git a/examples/index-i18n.html b/examples/index-i18n.html
index ed02775..99d2859 100644
--- a/examples/index-i18n.html
+++ b/examples/index-i18n.html
@@ -22,17 +22,23 @@
 		<script>
 			$( document ).ready( function() {
 				var i18n = $.i18n( );
+				// Use default locale "en"
+				i18n.locale = "en";
+				i18n.load( '../i18n/en.json', 'en' );
 				$( '.uls-trigger' ).uls( {
-					onSelect : function( language ) {
+					onReady: function ( ) {
+						this.i18n();
+					},
+					onSelect: function ( language ) {
 						var languageName = $.uls.data.autonym( language );
-						$('a#pageLanguage').text( languageName );
+						$( 'a#pageLanguage' ).text( languageName );
 						i18n.locale = language;
 						// For ULS
-						i18n.load( '../i18n/' + language + '.json', language);
+						i18n.load( '../i18n/' + language + '.json', language );
 						// For the web page
-						i18n.load( 'resources/i18n/' + language + '.json', language);
+						i18n.load( 'resources/i18n/' + language + '.json', language );
 						// re-i18n the elements
-						$( '.uls-menu' ).i18n();
+						this.i18n();
 						$( '.navbar' ).i18n();
 					},
 					quickList: [ 'en', 'hi', 'he', 'ml', 'ta', 'fr' ]
diff --git a/i18n/en.json b/i18n/en.json
index f411347..9722941 100644
--- a/i18n/en.json
+++ b/i18n/en.json
@@ -16,5 +16,6 @@
 "uls-no-results-found": "No results found",
 "uls-common-languages": "Common languages",
 "uls-no-results-suggestion-title": "You may be interested in:", 
-"uls-search-help": "You can search by language name, script name, ISO code of language or you can browse by region:"
+"uls-search-help": "You can search by language name, script name, ISO code of language or you can browse by region:",
+"uls-search-placeholder": "Language search"
 }
diff --git a/i18n/ml.json b/i18n/ml.json
index 69b7eb7..4614317 100644
--- a/i18n/ml.json
+++ b/i18n/ml.json
@@ -10,5 +10,6 @@
 	"uls-no-results-found": "\u0d12\u0d28\u0d4d\u0d28\u0d41\u0d02 \u0d15\u0d23\u0d4d\u0d1f\u0d46\u0d24\u0d4d\u0d24\u0d3e\u0d28\u0d3e\u0d2f\u0d3f\u0d32\u0d4d\u0d32",
 	"uls-common-languages": "\u0d38\u0d3e\u0d27\u0d3e\u0d30\u0d23 \u0d2d\u0d3e\u0d37\u0d15\u0d7e",
 	"uls-no-results-suggestion-title": "\u0d12\u0d30\u0d41 \u0d2a\u0d15\u0d4d\u0d37\u0d47 \u0d07\u0d24\u0d3e\u0d2f\u0d3f\u0d30\u0d3f\u0d15\u0d4d\u0d15\u0d41\u0d02 \u0d28\u0d3f\u0d19\u0d4d\u0d19\u0d7e \u0d24\u0d3f\u0d30\u0d1e\u0d4d\u0d1e\u0d24\u0d4d:",
-	"uls-search-help": "\u0d28\u0d3f\u0d19\u0d4d\u0d19\u0d7e\u0d15\u0d4d\u0d15\u0d4d \u0d2d\u0d3e\u0d37\u0d2f\u0d41\u0d1f\u0d46 \u0d2a\u0d47\u0d30\u0d4d, ISO 639 \u0d15\u0d4b\u0d21\u0d4d, \u0d32\u0d3f\u0d2a\u0d3f\u0d2f\u0d41\u0d1f\u0d46 \u0d2a\u0d47\u0d30\u0d4d \u0d0e\u0d28\u0d4d\u0d28\u0d3f\u0d35 \u0d09\u0d2a\u0d2f\u0d4b\u0d17\u0d3f\u0d1a\u0d4d\u0d1a\u0d4d \u0d24\u0d3f\u0d30\u0d2f\u0d3e\u0d02. \u0d05\u0d32\u0d4d\u0d32\u0d46\u0d19\u0d4d\u0d15\u0d3f\u0d7d \u0d08 \u0d2e\u0d47\u0d16\u0d32\u0d15\u0d33\u0d3f\u0d7d \u0d24\u0d3f\u0d30\u0d2f\u0d3e\u0d02:"
+	"uls-search-help": "\u0d28\u0d3f\u0d19\u0d4d\u0d19\u0d7e\u0d15\u0d4d\u0d15\u0d4d \u0d2d\u0d3e\u0d37\u0d2f\u0d41\u0d1f\u0d46 \u0d2a\u0d47\u0d30\u0d4d, ISO 639 \u0d15\u0d4b\u0d21\u0d4d, \u0d32\u0d3f\u0d2a\u0d3f\u0d2f\u0d41\u0d1f\u0d46 \u0d2a\u0d47\u0d30\u0d4d \u0d0e\u0d28\u0d4d\u0d28\u0d3f\u0d35 \u0d09\u0d2a\u0d2f\u0d4b\u0d17\u0d3f\u0d1a\u0d4d\u0d1a\u0d4d \u0d24\u0d3f\u0d30\u0d2f\u0d3e\u0d02. \u0d05\u0d32\u0d4d\u0d32\u0d46\u0d19\u0d4d\u0d15\u0d3f\u0d7d \u0d08 \u0d2e\u0d47\u0d16\u0d32\u0d15\u0d33\u0d3f\u0d7d \u0d24\u0d3f\u0d30\u0d2f\u0d3e\u0d02:",
+	"uls-search-placeholder": "ഭാഷ തിരയുക"
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/i18n/qqq.json b/i18n/qqq.json
index b67fbec..795a4ab 100644
--- a/i18n/qqq.json
+++ b/i18n/qqq.json
@@ -10,5 +10,6 @@
 	"uls-no-results-found": "Title text for 'No results found' section",
 	"uls-common-languages": "Title for languages listed based on GeoIP, previously used languaguage, browser accept-language etc.",
 	"uls-no-results-suggestion-title": "Title for language suggestion in 'no results found' screen",
-	"uls-search-help": "Help text for searching. After this text, there will be a set of links for regions"
+	"uls-search-help": "Help text for searching. After this text, there will be a set of links for regions",
+	"uls-search-placeholder": "Placeholder text in search box"
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/jquery.uls.core.js b/src/jquery.uls.core.js
index c5c9ac6..404849d 100644
--- a/src/jquery.uls.core.js
+++ b/src/jquery.uls.core.js
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
 
 		ready: function() {
 			if ( this.options.onReady ) {
-				this.options.onReady( this );
+				this.options.onReady.call( this );
 			}
 		},
 
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@
 
 		i18n: function() {
 			this.$menu.find( '[data-i18n]' ).i18n();
+			this.$languageFilter.prop( 'placeholder', $.i18n( 'uls-search-placeholder' ) );
 		},
 
 		defaultSearch: function () {