CiviCRM Community Forums (archive)

Can you use IE8 javascript debugger and narrow down the js error

might also want to see if you get the same error on the drupal demo site which is running 4.3.6

lobo

Corporate policy has disabled the Developer Tools in IE.   

The demo site seems to be using 4.3.4 - on the demo site, in my IE8 browser, the 'advanced search' page works as I would expect.

In my local test site, running 4.3.5, it does not. When the advanced search page loads in the browser, clicking on the accordion controls has no effect. The cursor icon changes to the pointing finger, suggesting that the control is clickable, but clicking on it just has no effect.

The IE status bar shows "Done, but with errors on page." Clicking on that gives the following error list:

Expected identifier, string or number:
rest.js
line 106
char: 5

Object doesn't support this property or method:
advanced
line 95
char: 1

Expected identifier, string or number
advanced
line 654
char 3

Hope that helps a bit.

Hi lobo. It works on demo. But not locally - I've tried with three different themes, including Garland (drupal default). Same behaviour each time.

We've tracked it down to two stray commas - one on line 105 of js/rest.js and one on line 65 of templates/CRM/Contact/Form/Search/AdvancedCriteria.tpl

I'll have a go at submitting a patch - but presumably it only needs to be submitted against 4.3.5 since the demo site is working OK?

I've checked the code on the demo site - and the stray commas are still in the code. Now I'm really confused. IE8 will run the demo site even though the javascript is mildly malformed, but it won't run 4.3.5 with the same errors in it. Did the document type definitions - or something else 'meta' - get changed between versions to mean that IE will happily ignore errors in 4.3.6 that it barfed over in 4.3.5?

Anyway, I've got a working site again, so I'm happy. Confused, but happy.