Difficulty Posting using MSIE9

[Mario Stevenson]

ABSTRACT:

During posting to Developer's forum at Mahara.org using MSIE9, the editor plugin would not allow writing into the fields.

MAHARA VERSION:

Assumed 1.4

BROWSER VERSON:

-MSIE9

DESCRIPTION:

It appears that it may be due to AJAX/HTML 5. The same issues are present in the latest WP version where the browser (MSIE7) would not correctly render the editor. In this case, when attempting to post the cursor would enter the textarea. As a workaround, I attempted to use the "paste from word" options. The effect is the same here as in WP, if it does post then it will enter the text in the editor otherwise the text simply disappears or never renders.

Additionally in trying to get the teh text editor to render the text into the textarea, multiple reloads or trying to click in the textarea seemed to work.

[Gordon McLeod (g-mcleod1)]

A workaround for this in IE8 / IE9 is to switch the browser to compatibility mode - but that needs to be done at user end on every machine so doesn't resolve the issue.

[Hugh Davenport (hugh-davenport)]

Hi,

I'm having a bit of difficulty reproducing this problem. Is the problem that you can't click on the text editor box and type something in then post, or is it something else?

Cheers,

Hugh

[Gordon McLeod (g-mcleod1)]

Hi,
You need to click precisely in the top left corner of the box (unless using IE9 in compatibility mode or other browser - in which case anywhere in the box works). Main issue with text editor reported elsewhere on tracker - contents of the text box that are edited/amended are wiped on saving when using IE9 - leaving just the header.

[Melissa Draper (melissa)]

I am not able to reproduce the issues that Gordon described at all.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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