IE 9 and IE 10 cannot enter text into input text boxes from time to time

Question

There is a web page with an iframe inside. Sometimes, Input text box controls, inside the iframe, are locked/ freezed. Users cannot enter text into them. But the text box ca

Answer 1

This worked for me on IE11,

• Cause of issue (aside from IE being stupid):
  • Focused input element is removed from display inside a iframe (css display property)
• Issue:
  • Text input element can not be clicked on, you can still tab to it however
• Workaround:
  • We need to focus() a known visible element before taking a input field out of display, so on the line before we take the display away from a input field we have the line: document.body.focus();