Debugging IE8 Javascript Replace innerHTML Runtime Error

Question

function DeleteData(ID)
{
 var ctrlId=ID.id;

 var divcontents=document.getElementById(ctrlId).innerHTML;
 var tabid=ctrlId.replace(/div/,\'tab\');
 var tabcontents=         


        

Answer 1

I had the same issue but my error was because I was inserting a p tag directly underneath a p element as in:

document.getElementById('p-element').innerHTML = '
some description
';

I don't really see how this is HTML format error; seems more like another IE8 bug.