#### Bug, feature request, or proposal: Bug Report IE 11 #### What is the expected behavior? If no value in input and placeholder forced to float should be no text in input #### What is the current behavior? if a color property is added to .mat-input-element the placeholder floats but still shows a placeholder in the input field as well. #### What are the steps to reproduce? Open the plunker in IE 11 and compare to Chrome. It is only one input field. Providing a Plunker (or similar) is the *best* way to get the team to see your issue. http://plnkr.co/edit/ujdRfTcrFgEgNL08D8Ba?p=preview #### What is the use-case or motivation for changing an existing behavior? I need to display an input form that can be disabled at times and the font color for disabled is hard to read at times. #### Which versions of Angular, Material, OS, browsers are affected? Angular: 4.x, Material: Latest merge at Master, Windows 10, IE 11 #### Is there anything else we should know?