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#9514 closed bug (cantfix)
Opened June 03, 2011 10:23PM UTC
Closed June 04, 2011 06:02PM UTC
clone() of LINK from parent followed by append() into child document fails on IE6 and IE7
| Reported by: | social@kolich.com | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | undecided | Milestone: | 1.next |
| Component: | unfiled | Version: | 1.6.1 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
A page (the parent) contains an <iframe> (the child). The child <iframe> uses jQuery to find relevant <script>'s and stylesheet <link>'s sourced in the <head> of the parent, and attempts to add those resources to the <head> of itself. In other words, <script>'s and <link>'s found in the parent are dynamically added to the child using jQuery.
This works in IE8+, FF3+, Chrome and Safari -- in these cases, I see that the <script>'s and CSS related <link>'s are correctly found, cloned and appended to the <head> of the child <iframe>. In IE6 and IE7, the same code fails to properly clone() and append() any associated <link>'s from the parent into the child. Note that <script>'s work fine, but IE6 and IE7 reports an "illegal argument" error inside of jQuery when cloning and appending a <link>.
I tried to reproduce this bug in JSFiddle, but couldn't fit things together correctly in that environment. As a result, my write-up of the problem, and code that reproduces the issue, can be found at:
http://temp.koli.ch/jquery-clone-bug
A quick search of existing bugs produced no interesting results.
Please let me know if you need more information.
Regards,
Mark
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Changed June 04, 2011 06:02PM UTC by comment:1
| resolution: | → cantfix |
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| status: | new → closed |
Unfortunately we can't work around this browser issue inside core. You can Google around and see this has been a problem in IE6/7 for a decade, e.g. http://www.webmasterkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/jscript/2731/HOWTO-copy-nodes-from-one-IFRAME-to-another-IFRAME
You might try using an HTML rendering instead.