Comments on: Submitting a form with target set to a script-generated iframe on IE

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:02:16 +0000

Thanks,

You are an actual genius, I’m so glad it came near the top in my google - ing.

Dan

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By: Cmdr. Gabe E.

Cmdr. Gabe E. — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:58:18 +0000

Thank you very much for sharing this!
I’ve gone around in circles trying to solve this problem, and your solution nailed it :D!
Awesome! Thanks again :D!

By: sameera

sameera — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:17:37 +0000

Thank you ever so much!!!! i’ve been breaking my head for over 4 hours on this!!!!

This is why i love the web too

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:47:39 +0000

I just discovered the same thing is true for dynamically-created forms. For example, the following works in Firefox but not IE 7 (or presumably 6):

var form = document.createElement(’form’);
form.enctype = ‘multipart/form-data’;

instead, in IE you must do

form = document.createElement(”);

and you should be fine.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:26:49 +0000

I spent a few hours searching for this, this saved my rear. Thanks.

Also, it’s worth mentioning that IE has the same problem with dynamically assigning a function to onload(). So if you you want to do an onload() handler for your iframe (when the file is finished uploading, for example) you need to do:

iframe = document.createElement(”);

iframe.onloadHack = function()
{
// do whatever
}

Hope this helps anybody else who was wondering.

Thanks again!

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:16:31 +0000

To echo everyone else, thank you! This was exactly what I was looking for.

By: Claus Conrad

Claus Conrad — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:32:01 +0000

Thanks a lot for your entry! I remember having read about the same bug in IE for dynamically created INPUT radio buttons a long time ago, but when I experienced the same behavior with an IFRAME today as you it didn’t strike me that I could use the same workaround again (mostly because setting “name” attribute on other tags in IE has worked for me since reading the other article years ago). Building a product that appears faster by forcing competitors to catch more “exceptions” is just so typical for Microsoft marketing :S.

By: J.P.

J.P. — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:59:10 +0000

You just ended several hours of frustration! Thank you so much!

By: L.K.

L.K. — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:35:15 +0000

Thank you SO much, you saved me a lot of time. You have a new regular reader to your blog now.

By: Dmitry A. Soshnikov

Dmitry A. Soshnikov — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:04:03 +0000

Thx so much, yesterday i tried to fix this ugly IE bug myself (thinkin’ - what a hell is going on here?!), today - went to google and found your article =) Thx again - it fixed now )

By: Diego

Diego — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:52:22 +0000

THANKS SO MUCH!!!

I was facing that “strange” IE behaviour
and before going crazy I just “googled” for it and… here I am!

WTF is exactly what went through my mind reading your solution!

Thanks again!