Oct 15th

JQuery UI Dialog not showing up twice in IE ( invalid argument )

I personally love the JQuery library, it makes life soo much easier. Add to that the JQuery UI libraries and you have yourself a seriously mean platform to build killer applications. That said, I ran into a mean little bug that affects the way the UI Dialog shows up on the page in Internet Exploder, I know… stop rolling your eyes it is here to stay and we will need to learn to play nice.

The bug:
Once a JQuery UI dialog has been initialized, opened once, and then closed it cannot be reopened in IE due to an “invalid argument” error.

The fix:
Open up your copy of jquery.js (you do have it locally right?, latency alert!) around line 1060 look for: 

if ( set )
			elem[ name ] = value;

and change it to:

if ( set )
			try{elem[ name ] = value;} catch (error){};

Viola!

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  1. Erwin Heiser says:
    November 2, 2009 at 12:44 pm

    Thanks, this was doing my head in :)

  2. Doug Linsmeyer says:
    November 2, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    No problem. It was a pain for me too, glad it helped, at least the post was worth the time then.

  3. Rik says:
    November 11, 2009 at 9:07 am

    Thank you very much for this!

    If you’re editing the minified version then you’ll need to replace…

    if(L){J[G]=K}

    …with…

    if(L){try{J[G]=K}catch(err){};}

  4. Doug Linsmeyer says:
    November 11, 2009 at 9:19 am

    Thanks for that Rik! I didn’t think to include the fix for that version.

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