#### Bug, feature request, or proposal: Bug #### What is the expected behavior? It was supposed to only appear the label. #### What is the current behavior? Shows both the label and placeholder at the same time. #### What are the steps to reproduce? Input needs to be inside a element that has a 'webkit-text-fill-color' property. https://stackblitz.com/edit/input-color-bug?file=app%2Fcard-overview-example.html #### Which versions of Angular, Material, OS, TypeScript, browsers are affected? Tested on Chrome and Angular Material 5.2.4 and 6.3.2.