IE "Operation Aborted" and jQuery

by
Annika Backstrom
in Uncategorized on 9 July 2008. #Web#ie#ie7#internet explorer#internet explorer 7#JavaScript#jgrowl#jquery

[Operation Aborted dialog][]I ran into a problem with Internet Explorer 7's "[Operation Aborted][]" dialog yesterday. When displaying a message via [jGrowl][], IE7 would display the contents leading up to my <script> tag, then die with that error and redisplay a "friendly" error page claiming, "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage."

The previously mentioned IEBlog article immediately shined light on my mistake: $.jGrowl() was attempting to modify <body> before the tag had been closed. The solution: place my $.jGrowl() calls in $(document).ready().

[Operation Aborted dialog]: /media/2008/07/09/aborted.jpg [Operation Aborted]: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/04/23/what-happened-to-operation-aborted.aspx [jGrowl]: http://stanlemon.net/projects/jgrowl.html