#### Bug, feature request, or proposal: Bugs #### What is the expected behavior? Whatever placeholder text it is, floating placeholder (md-input-placeholder) should be rendered without y-scrollbar on IE browser. #### What is the current behavior? some character-set (such as Korean)'s line-height can be bigger than md-input-placeholder height.  #### What are the steps to reproduce? visit the plnkr.co on IE 11 browser windows 10 http://plnkr.co/edit/Z0XDCASXPMhCj07KB1Nf?p=preview #### What is the use-case or motivation for changing an existing behavior? Changing supported language of website to Korean. #### Which versions of Angular, Material, OS, browsers are affected? Angular material - master branch and beta.2 branch Angular - 4.0.0-rc.2 OS: Windows 10 browser: IE 11 #### Is there anything else we should know?