IE7, removeChild and SSL
We recently launched some items into an SSL environment and an IE7 JS bug appeared when deleting a DIV. The bug is slightly difficult to debug in that all versions of IE are especially “blind” when it comes to JavaScript error handling. Here’s the criteria:
- page is being requested in SSL mode
- div has a background image in the form url(/path/to/image.extension)
- the use of the removeChild function
Any time the specific div gets removeChild’d AND it contains a background css style, IE will prompt the user the page contains non-secure elements right before it gets removed.
To get around this, delete the background css style before calling the removeChild function. Microsoft has also released two alternate fixes.
Tags: Browsers, IE6, IE7, javascript, Microsoft, SSL
