Can't move focus to the control because it is invisible, not enabled, or of a type that does not accept the focus.

[camilo.arthur@…]

I'm getting the following error on IE 8.0:

Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.3; MS-RTC LM 8; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E) Timestamp: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:03:26 UTC

Message: Can't move focus to the control because it is invisible, not enabled, or of a type that does not accept the focus.

The piece of code indicated by IE was:

jQuery.event.triggered = type; elem[type](); jQuery.event.triggered = undefined;

[dmethvin]

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[sindresorhus]

#10973 is a duplicate of this ticket.

[anonymous]

I also found this error in IE8. I have a very simple page which include JQuery in the <header> section. When trying to load the paeg, got a warning and nothing is displayed (empty page).

Error copied and shown below.

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; CMNTDF; InfoPath.2; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E) Timestamp: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:37:51 UTC

Message: Can't move focus to the control because it is invisible, not enabled, or of a type that does not accept the focus. Line: 4 Char: 3806 Code: 0 URI:  http://localhost:65106/Scripts/jquery-1.7.1.min.js

[Mario Santos]

I had the same issue on the latest jquery version (1.7.1, downloaded today!!) the solution was to put a try...catch statement around the condition. In my case, the problem was:

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.2; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E) Timestamp: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:58:01 UTC Message: Can't move focus to the control because it is invisible, not enabled, or of a type that does not accept the focus. Line: 3175

And the lines affected: Prevent re-triggering of the same event, since we already bubbled it above jQuery.event.triggered = type; elem[ type ]();

The code still haves a comment that points to a issue #1486 (4 years ago?) IE<9 dies on focus/blur to hidden element (#1486) http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/1486

[anonymous]

putting a try catch around the focus call worked for me.

if(retainFocus){
				try {
					this.newelement[0].focus();
				} catch(err){
					return false;
				}
			}	

[jstrimpel@…]

This shouldn't bomb. As it did not break in previous versions of jQuery. I agree that trying to set focus to a disabled element is bad practice, but jQuery's response to this action shouldn't change between releases.

[anonymous]

I just got the same error just visiting a page. Following the fact I have had multiple script errors for days, this is the first time I have seen this one