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Placeholder not displayed for IE11

See original GitHub issue

When using the placeholder attribute with the {{power-select-multiple}} it seems to disappears for us and I experienced the same problem at the demo (Select some names…).

See dump from homepage

IE11 power-select-multiple IE11

Chrome power-select-multiple-chrome

Placeholder is supported in IE11 and i really hope this is something that might be supported out of the box here as well?

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:8 (1 by maintainers)

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cibernoxcommented, Oct 16, 2017

I just landed from holidays, I’ll look into this asap. If I haven’t answered by Wednesday afternoon please ping me again.

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arnebitcommented, May 29, 2018

Placeholder is explicitly removed when the browser is IE11 since PR #355 (see snippet in second post).

The reasoning given was

There is some kind of bug in IE that causes the input to gain the focus over and over when it has placeholder.

This solution is less than ideal, but it’s better to not have placeholder than to have a select that you can’t close.

and I can reproduce this: The dropdown only closes on click outside when there is already a selection or a search string is entered (single letter is enough), but cannot be closed when the content is empty.

One could easily add a boolean parameter to display the placeholder in IE11 regardless, but informing our users about how to close the dropdown properly seems less than ideal, too.

(I tried to make a related twiddle but it gets stuck building, possibly related to https://github.com/ember-cli/ember-twiddle/issues/561.)