Disappearing text value in IE 6

[Guest]

Here is the description of an issue we are having with one of our web
applications:

We have a HTML form field which has a browse button which opens a modal
dialog popup. Clicking on one of the hyperlink values in the dialog populates
a value in a read-only text area at the botton of the dialog. Clicking OK
then closes the dialog and returns that value to the field on the form.
However, (sometimes) if you click the hyperlink value and populate the value
in the text area in the dialog, and then you move the mouse cursor around so
that you are putting focus on and off the dialog window, the value in the
text area disappears. This is causing us major problems because if the user
then re-selects the value and has it re-appear in the text area on the
dialog, and then clicks OK, both the old value (that had disappeared) and the
new one are part of the field value that is returned to the form.

In investigating this issue, we have determined that this only occurs in our
particular environment - with IE 6, Apache and SSL. In our non-SSL
environments we can't recreate it. In IE 7 or Firefox, we can't recreate it.
But our corporate standard is IE 6, Apache and SSL so we need a solution for
that environment.

I was hoping I could be given some guidance in terms of whether this is at
all a known issue with IE 6, and if there is a patch available that may
address this issue.

Thanks,
John Carter
Sr Systems Integrator/Developer ECM
City Of Ottawa
613-580-2424 x15333
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Rob ^_^]

Hi John,

How are you populating the text area? Scripting its value or innertext OR a
form postback OR Clipboard copy/paste

Form postback - make sure the page is not cached.

scripted inner text value - there is a feature in IE6/SP 2 where orphaned
tags (eg. <script> without a closing </script>) do not render html after the
orphaned tag instance. If your text area contains "<" or ">" characters this
may be the problem.

Clipboard copy/paste - IE6 SP2 has settings for clipboard access in the
Zones Settings. Also there is a setting to allow scripting of the web
browser if you are using OLECmd with the webbrowser object.

I don't think SSL has anything to do with it, but check your Internet
Options, Advanced tab, Security section.