diff --git a/layout/reftests/css-placeholder/input/css-text-align.html b/layout/reftests/css-placeholder/input/css-text-align.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..13456c3b30c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/layout/reftests/css-placeholder/input/css-text-align.html
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
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diff --git a/layout/reftests/css-placeholder/input/reftest.list b/layout/reftests/css-placeholder/input/reftest.list
index 8353080a90b..dbe15679ea0 100644
--- a/layout/reftests/css-placeholder/input/reftest.list
+++ b/layout/reftests/css-placeholder/input/reftest.list
@@ -24,3 +24,4 @@ needs-focus == placeholder-blur.html placeholder-simple-ref.html
# We can't check except by verifying that the output is different.
# Same reasons as focus issues explained above.
!= css-opacity.html placeholder-simple-ref.html
+!= css-text-align.html placeholder-simple-ref.html
diff --git a/layout/style/nsCSSPropList.h b/layout/style/nsCSSPropList.h
index ad39b91178f..fffe0d685cd 100644
--- a/layout/style/nsCSSPropList.h
+++ b/layout/style/nsCSSPropList.h
@@ -2722,7 +2722,7 @@ CSS_PROP_TEXT(
text-align,
text_align,
TextAlign,
- CSS_PROPERTY_PARSE_VALUE,
+ CSS_PROPERTY_PARSE_VALUE | CSS_PROPERTY_APPLIES_TO_PLACEHOLDER,
"",
// When we support aligning on a string, we can parse text-align
// as a string....