title: focus() doesn't work in IE 11
body: <p>I have the following <em>HTML</em>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div id="blocked-layer-parent"&gt;
      &lt;textarea id="paint-textarea" placeholder="Enter text" autofocus&gt;&lt;%-sometext%&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
      &lt;div id="blocked-layer"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In <strong><em>IE 11</em></strong> <em>autofocus</em> doesn't work. I tried to use <em>focus</em> function like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$("#paint-textarea").focus();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>or this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>var textAreaElement = document.getElementById("paint-textarea");
  setTimeout(function() {
      textAreaElement.focus();
  }, 2100);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but <em>textarea</em> doesn't get focus in <strong><em>IE 11</em></strong>. I looked different decisions (for example <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1326993/jquery-focus-sometimes-not-working-in-ie8">jQuery focus() sometimes not working in IE8</a> and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2600186/focus-doesnt-work-in-ie">focus doesn&#39;t work in IE</a>) but noone doesn't work.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for any help.</p>
  
  <p><strong><em>P.S.</em></strong> <em>textarea</em>'s <em>placeholder</em> is transforming in text (<em>textelement</em>) in <strong><em>IE</em></strong>. I find it so strange. In other module of application I have <em>input</em> with <em>placeholder</em> for searching. This <em>placeholder</em> works like placeholder (it disappears after char inputing). After some dialog showing <em>placeholder</em> transforms in text and searching stops working. Maybe the problem is related to this?</p>