How to style placeholder in textarea for Explorer?

Question

I'm having trouble styling a placeholder in a textarea, for IE

I'm using this CSS (for IE):

input:-ms-input-placeholder, textarea:-ms-input-placeholder {
    color: #00abeb;  
}

The input fields colors are changed. But the textarea NOT

Am I doing something wrong, or is there a workaround?

PS: I know that placerholders does not work in all older browsers. But this is not about that

Answer 1

Try this

input:-ms-input-placeholder, textarea:-ms-input-placeholder {
    color: #636363;
}