Nikolai Mavrenkov already created a good description of the problem on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36893449/textarea-placeholder-isnt-shown-in-ie-11-being-rendered-using-react

I just can confirm it breaks in IE11, but works in IE10 (and other browsers) with React v15.0.2.

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      } else if (
          DOMProperty.properties[propKey] ||
          DOMProperty.isCustomAttribute(propKey)) {
        var node = getNode(this);
        
        
        
        if (nextProp != null) {
          DOMPropertyOperations.setValueForProperty(node, propKey, nextProp);
        } else {
          DOMPropertyOperations.deleteValueForProperty(node, propKey);
        }
      }
    }
    if (styleUpdates) {
      CSSPropertyOperations.setValueForStyles(
        getNode(this),
        styleUpdates,
        this
      );
    }
  },
  /**
   * Reconciles the children with the various properties that affect the
   * children content.
   *
   * @param {object} lastProps
   * @param {object} nextProps
   * @param {ReactReconcileTransaction} transaction