#### Bug, feature request, or proposal: BUG #### What is the expected behavior? Children content should be invisible, when parent's visibility:none #### What is the current behavior? .md-input-placeholder.md-empty class overrides parents visibility. #### What are the steps to reproduce? set visibility: hidden to parent div, containing input with placeholder. Providing a Plunker (or similar) is the _best_ way to get the team to see your issue. Plunker template: http://plnkr.co/edit/o077B6uEiiIgkC0S06dd #### What is the use-case or motivation for changing an existing behavior? #### Which versions of Angular, Material, OS, browsers are affected? angular rc1, material2 alpha.5 #### Is there anything else we should know? Can submit fix PR, If BUG is accepted