Dialog: "unspecified error" when using ie9 and iframe

[mr-x-123]

hi folks, i'm sorry i'm in a hurry and writing a bad ticket. in fact i considered not writing a ticket at all, but it maybe it will help. to my humble knowledge the effects module is USELESS as-is in ie9 with a iframed page.

problem is: ie9.0.8112.16421 64bit (not ie8, not ie7, not ff, not chromium) gives "unspecified error" when calling

active = document.activeElement;

in line 4716 or so. this is most likely a ie9 bug.

you can read more at  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7904417/jquery-ui-creates-unspecified-error-when-loading-iframe-in-ie9 or just google. you will find if you are interested.

i "fixed" it by writing

try {
active = document.activeElement;
} catch( e ) {
active = document.body;
}

around this and the other occourence of document.activeElement;

please excuse if i can't provide additional information

[scott.gonzalez]

Please provide a reduced test case showing the problem. I just did a quick test with animated dialogs and it worked fine.

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[muzzamo]

I believe this is an issue in jquery core.

I have created ticket 13378 ( http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/13378) to track it there.

[tj.vantoll]

#9254 is a duplicate of this ticket.

[tj.vantoll]

The error occurs on this line in open:

this.opener = $( this.document[0].activeElement );

Per the discussion in the core ticket the error occurs on access to activeElement, therefore I believe our only recourse here it to wrap that line with a try/catch.

I verified that this problem does not occur in IE10.