diff --git a/common/changes/office-ui-fabric-react/fix-focuszone-props_2018-03-21-22-25.json b/common/changes/office-ui-fabric-react/fix-focuszone-props_2018-03-21-22-25.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8f978b2f51c84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/changes/office-ui-fabric-react/fix-focuszone-props_2018-03-21-22-25.json
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+  "changes": [
+    {
+      "packageName": "office-ui-fabric-react",
+      "comment": "FocusZone: Align props to HTMLElement to be consistent",
+      "type": "patch"
+    }
+  ],
+  "packageName": "office-ui-fabric-react",
+  "email": "joschect@microsoft.com"
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/FocusZone/FocusZone.tsx b/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/FocusZone/FocusZone.tsx
index 87258f4196e0d..6823e02c0e7b1 100644
--- a/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/FocusZone/FocusZone.tsx
+++ b/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/FocusZone/FocusZone.tsx
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import {
   EventGroup,
   KeyCodes,
   css,
-  divProperties,
+  htmlElementProperties,
   elementContains,
   getDocument,
   getId,
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ export class FocusZone extends BaseComponent<IFocusZoneProps, {}> implements IFo
 
   public render() {
     const { rootProps, ariaDescribedBy, ariaLabelledBy, className } = this.props;
-    const divProps = getNativeProps(this.props, divProperties);
+    const divProps = getNativeProps(this.props, htmlElementProperties);
 
     const Tag = this.props.elementType || 'div';
 
@@ -134,7 +134,10 @@ export class FocusZone extends BaseComponent<IFocusZoneProps, {}> implements IFo
         ...divProps
         }
         {
-        ...rootProps
+        // root props has been deprecated and should get removed.
+        // it needs to be marked as "any" since root props expects a div element, but really Tag can
+        // be any native element so typescript rightly flags this as a problem.
+        ...rootProps as any
         }
         className={ css('ms-FocusZone', className) }
         ref={ this._root }