From f0b140d7266708e360d98127a6ee0f47dd2419bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim <jsproch@fb.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 18:58:37 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix IE11 placeholder textContent value bug. (#7002)

---
 src/renderers/dom/client/wrappers/ReactDOMTextarea.js | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/renderers/dom/client/wrappers/ReactDOMTextarea.js b/src/renderers/dom/client/wrappers/ReactDOMTextarea.js
index 11190eb3f9c6b..3c06222f7af80 100644
--- a/src/renderers/dom/client/wrappers/ReactDOMTextarea.js
+++ b/src/renderers/dom/client/wrappers/ReactDOMTextarea.js
@@ -187,7 +187,9 @@ var ReactDOMTextarea = {
     // This is in postMount because we need access to the DOM node, which is not
     // available until after the component has mounted.
     var node = ReactDOMComponentTree.getNodeFromInstance(inst);
-    node.value = node.value; // Detach value from defaultValue
+
+    // Warning: node.value may be the empty string at this point (IE11) if placeholder is set.
+    node.value = node.textContent; // Detach value from defaultValue
   },
 };