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.

inputValueTracking.track(this);
}
function trapClickOnNonInteractiveElement() {
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  var node = getNode(this);
  node.onclick = emptyFunction;
}
function trapBubbledEventsLocal() {