Tabs: Incorrect remote tab detection in IE7

[roeycohen@…]

Hi,

there is a problem with the TABs widget under IE7. adding a new tab using java-script and calling refresh doesn't work properly.

the problem is that "anchor.href" under ie7 does not return the full URL, only what is written inside the href attribute. this causes isLocal(line 26 at the source code) to fail and always return false even if i want a new local tab.

please let me know if you need more data, Roey

[Scott González]

Can you please provide a reduced test case showing the problem? You can use ​http://jsfiddle.net/tj_vantoll/ZjgbK/ as a starting point.

[roeycohen@…]

ok, i've upload a working sample: ​http://jsfiddle.net/ZjgbK/20/

running chrome, ie >= 8 works fine.

switching to ie7 mode doesn't work (the 2nd alert does not contain the whole url, causing the widget's isLocal to think that the dynamically added tab is not local. also the new div container is always visible because the plugin doesn't even look for it.

help :) Roey

[roeycohen@…]

please notice that this is not a duplicate of ​http://bugs.jqueryui.com/ticket/7822 (i'm not using the base tag).

though the solution may be giving us the programmers the option to tell the widget whether the tab is local or not.

thanks, Roey

[tj.vantoll]

You're running into this IE <= 7 quirk ​http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1593174/wrong-extraction-of-attrhref-in-ie7-vs-all-other-browsers.

Pass the href attribute embedded in the HTML string ($( "<a href='#dynamic'></a>") instead of $( "a", { href: "#dynamic" } ) and this will work fine: ​http://jsfiddle.net/tj_vantoll/PGfNT/

[Scott González]

I wouldn't say that this isn't a bug. It might be a won't fix though.

[Scott González]

Tabs: Restore anchor cloning for remote tab testing. Fixes #9317 - Tabs: Incorrect remote tab detection in IE7.

Changeset: daf3f0d9af5b29dc090e15d57cf884e3c12f7cad

[Scott González]

Tabs: Restore anchor cloning for remote tab testing. Fixes #9317 - Tabs: Incorrect remote tab detection in IE7. (cherry picked from commit daf3f0d9af5b29dc090e15d57cf884e3c12f7cad)

Changeset: 39ff5b36e4ed2513f7dc11c22ea4df5d03f9f7b7