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.

break;
      case 'option':
        ReactDOMOption.mountWrapper(this, props, hostParent);
        props = ReactDOMOption.getHostProps(this, props);
        break;
      case 'select':
        ReactDOMSelect.mountWrapper(this, props, hostParent);
        props = ReactDOMSelect.getHostProps(this, props);
        transaction.getReactMountReady().enqueue(trapBubbledEventsLocal, this);
        break;
      case 'textarea':
        ReactDOMTextarea.mountWrapper(this, props, hostParent);
        props = ReactDOMTextarea.getHostProps(this, props);
        transaction.getReactMountReady().enqueue(trackInputValue, this);
        transaction.getReactMountReady().enqueue(trapBubbledEventsLocal, this);
        break;
    }
    assertValidProps(this, props);
    
    
    var namespaceURI;
    var parentTag;
    if (hostParent != null) {
      namespaceURI = hostParent._namespaceURI;
      parentTag = hostParent._tag;
    } else if (hostContainerInfo._tag) {
      namespaceURI = hostContainerInfo._namespaceURI;
      parentTag = hostContainerInfo._tag;
    }
    if (namespaceURI == null ||