Clicking on Tab throws an exception in IE7 after receiving the response of an Ajax request

[numericalexample.com]

jQuery UI tabs work fine in IE7 except for one particular case.

When clicking on a tab after having received the response on an Ajax request, IE7 throws an exception.

Follow these steps to reproduce the exception:

1. Set up some tabs in javascript
   
2. do an ajax request which needn't be related to the tabs
   
3. the ajax request completes without errors
   
4. click on a tab
   

Or:

1. Open page ​http://www.numericalexample.com/content/view/76/33/
   
2. Click on "Compute" (does the ajax request)
   
3. Ajax request completes: Total computed Vitamin B12 (μg/day): 0.0000
   
4. Click on Tab "Instructions"

In the second four steps the test is with jQuery 1.2.6 and jQuery ui 1.6 but I can assure you the same bug is still present with jQuery 1.3.2 and jQuery UI 1.7.1.

Others have reported a similar unsolved bug in Google Groups, with less details.

[numericalexample.com]

This bug can be closed again. I got rid of the problem by cleaning up some code. Sorry for the confusion.

[numericalexample.com]

Please neglect my previous comment.

The problem was that I tried to write an empty string in the jQuery html method: $('#receivingId').html(varContainingEmptyString); This happened in the response method of an Ajax call.

FireFox handled this OK but in IE7 the clicking on tabs appeared to be broken from that moment.

[Scott González]

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