IE 11 doesn't render placeholder color properly

css twitter-bootstrap internet-explorer placeholder html-rendering

user2045407 · Mar 23, 2015 · Viewed 8.3k times · Source

In Bootstrap 3.2.2 there is declaration:

.form-control:-ms-input-placeholder {
  color: #999;
}

IE 11.0.17 (possibly other versions as well) doesn't render it correctly, the placeholder remains black.

Answer

I put the following in my custom CSS and it fixed the problem:

input:-ms-input-placeholder {
    color: #999;
}