Bug in IE8 - someone please test in IE9?

JavaScript
1

I’ve come across an interesting bug. The following code works OK in IE8 in order to set focus to an element with contentEditable="true" in IE:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>hello world</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
  window.onload = function() {
    var el = document.getElementById('aaa');
    el.contentEditable = true;
    el.focus(); // fails to focus with caret if el is an anchor
  }
</script>
<head>
<body>
<p href="aa.html" id="aaa">sdgsdfsdfss</p>
</body>
</html>

However, if you instead try this with an anchor (just replace the <p> with an <a>) it focuses the anchor (gives it the dotted outline), but doesn’t put the caret in there - you have to click it.

I’d really like someone to test this with the new IE9 please, and let me know if it’s the same.

2

Thanks.

3

Yup, same behavior.