IE9 - DOM Exception: INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR

Vault
#1

Hello support-team,

we test your vault-extensions out and think about to buy a license, but we have a problem with IE9. With FireFox newest version and other browsers all works.

IE9 - F12 Developer-Tools - Debugging

SCRIPT5022: DOM Exception: INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR (5)
dhtmlxvault.js, Row 26 Character 569

if (this.IE){this.uploadForm = document.createElement("<form enctype='multipart/form-data' target='dhtmlxVaultUploadFrame' method='post'>")

I try to find a hotfix or something, but i get no result in blog or forum, how to fix this error.
May be the support-team know about this mistake and have a solution, if not i hope, this code-snippet helps a little.

We have another problem with IE9, we know, it`s not for this part of your forum…
The grid event onEnter has no effect.

FYI: Hot Fix for IE9 is in use.
Our License: dhtmlxSuite PRO Commercial (up to Vers. 2.6)

Thanks hopsy

#2

Dear Support-Team,

dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dht … ndex.shtml

… same error with IE9 on your dhtmlxVault-demo-site.

с большим приветом
hopsy

#3

Hello,
you can’t add a file with IE9 - your vault demo - are you not interested?
ciao hopsy

#4

Please find a this line in src:
if (this.IE) { this.uploadForm = document.createElement("<form enc …

and replace it with if (false) …

(there is no specific code required for IE.)

We will officially push an update very soon. Sorry for this.

#5

Grazie mille!
ciao hopsy

#6

Another option is to switch to compatibility mode. Unfortunately, that’s only a client-side fix, though you can apparently force IE into compatibility mode based on how you serve up the page.
See : stackoverflow.com/questions/1014 … blity-mode

Before IE9, and possibly IE8 (can’t remember, too lazy to check), IE accepted document.createElement(’’);, which isn’t how the standard works. Unfortunately, if you wanted to include some attributes, like name="", you had to use that method, because IE didn’t support setting the name of an element via javascript.

So, their naive check of just if(this.IE){} causes IE 9, which managed to finally implement createElement() correctly, to choke on the bad code. Switching to compatibility mode forces IE to accept the non-standard code, which is why it would continue to work.

Sadly, determining whether or not the browser is in compatibility mode is non-trivial. I’ve seen a few hacks that might work, but I haven’t seen anything concrete that I feel confident will reliably determine whether or not the browser is in compatibility mode.

#7

I have a workaround:

dhtmlxvault.js line 26:

... if (this.IE) { this.uploadForm = doc_form() } else {...
...
function doc_form() {
     var docform = document.createElement("form");
     docform.setAttribute("enctype", "multipart/form-data");
     docform.setAttribute("target", "dhtmlxVaultUploadFrame");
     docform.setAttribute("method", "post");
     return docform;
}

instead of

... if (this.IE){this.uploadForm = document.createElement("<form enctype='multipart/form-data' target='dhtmlxVaultUploadFrame' method='post'>")}else {...
#8

DHTMLX Team,
Is there any plan to get this update out? The suggested fix from another user has helpped me keep things running in IE9, but i would prefer to implement an updated version of the dhtmlx Vault if possible to avoid future instances of missing this or other IE9 issues.

Thanks