The following piece of JS which used to work in IE8 is failing now in IE9.
document.createElement(\'
For jQuery.bgiframe.js, would be a better solution to fix the wrong IE6 test?
What about replacing this:
if($.browser.msie&&/6.0/.test(navigator.userAgent)
with something like this:
if ($.browser.msie && $.browser.version=="6.0")
This error can come when accidentally using standard JavaScript function names as your own function names if you don't use namespaces. For example I have a concept called "Attribute" and I wanted to try a new function that created a new one of those:
<button onclick="createAttribute('Pony')">Foo</button>
<button onclick="createAttribute('Magical pony')">Bar</button>
<script type="text/javascript">
function createAttribute(name) { alert(name); }
</script>
INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR (5)
or InvalidCharacterError: DOM Exception
5
createAttribute('Django')
gives you the alertWhat is happening is that the buttons are calling document.createAttribute() and your dev console is calling the function you declared.
Solution: use a different function name or better yet, a namespace.
This is a solution for jquery's jquery.bgiframe.js.
if ( $.browser.msie && /9.0/.test(navigator.userAgent) ) {
var iframe = document.createElement("iframe");
iframe.setAttribute("class", "bgiframe");
iframe.setAttribute("frameborder", "0");
iframe.setAttribute("style", "display:block;position:absolute;z-index:-1;filter:Alpha(Opacity=\'0\');top:expression(((parseInt(this.parentNode.currentStyle.borderTopWidth)||0)*-1)+\'px\');left:expression(((parseInt(this.parentNode.currentStyle.borderLeftWidth)||0)*-1)+\'px\');width:expression(this.parentNode.offsetWidth+\'px\');height:expression(this.parentNode.offsetHeight+\'px\');");
this.insertBefore( iframe, this.firstChild );
} else {
this.insertBefore( document.createElement(html), this.firstChild );
}
For jquery.bgiframe.js:
I downloaded version 1.1.3 pre at
https://github.com/brandonaaron/bgiframe/blob/master/jquery.bgiframe.js
and this solved the problem.
If you are willing to sacrifice a little performance and can use an external library I would suggest using:
Prototype JS
var el = new Element('iframe', {
id: "<your id here>",
src: "<your source here>",
style: "<your style here>"
});
jQuery
var el = jQuery('<iframe>', {
id: '<your id here>',
src: "<your source here>",
style: "<your style here>"
})[0];
This takes care of all the inconsistencies between browsers and is also a lot prettier :-)
Note: This is untested pseudocode - refer to the official documentation pages of Prototype JS and jQuery for more information.
The API for createElement specifies that the constructor wants a string
that species the name of an element. It would appear that IE9 is more strictly following standards. You can accomplish the same thing you are trying to do with the following code:
var iframe = document.createElement("iframe");
iframe.setAttribute("id", "yui-history-iframe");
iframe.setAttribute("src", "../../images/defaults/transparent-pixel.gif");
iframe.setAttribute("style", "position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:1px;height:1px;visibility:hidden;");
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536389(v=vs.85).aspx