Setting and removing focus in an empty input field with placeholder triggers change in IE

[fizker]

See http://jsfiddle.net/69z2wepo/3887/ for example code.

When setting and removing focus from an empty <input /> field with some placeholder text, the onChange event is triggered for IE 11 (I have not tested older versions). It does not trigger for other browsers.

My current work-around is to test the value that was last passed to the input with what is returned by event.target.value, and only act if they are different, but it would be nice if React would not send the change-event in the first place.

[jimfb]

@spicyj Sounds like a browser quark that we should normalize against, right? Is there anything other than value that we would need to check?

[sophiebits]

Yeah, this seems odd. Probably on the challenging side for a first bug, but it would be good to figure out why this is happening and how we can prevent it, while still making it possible to type the placeholder text in directly as @captray says.

[syranide]

#2185, not really related but I imagine both could be solved by a similar fix.

[aronwoost]

Also goes for IE10.