Using window location hash includes throws Object doesn t support property or method includes in IE11

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I am checking the URL to see if it contains or includes a   in it to control the hash pop state in the window  All other browsers aren   t having an issue  only IE   The debugger gives me this error when I try to load in this way      Object doesn t support property or method  includes    I get no error when I load the page in through the popstate         document  ready function e            if window location hash                var hash              if window location hash includes                         alert  I have a                      hash   window location hash substring window location hash indexOf        0 window location hash indexOf                     else                   hash   window location hash                             if  hash    DRS     hash    DRP     hash    DFFI     hash    DCI     hash    DCP     hash    DRP     hash    DRMA     hash    EICS     hash    ORG                      hash  Content   addClass  pageOn   removeClass  pageOff                 else                       homeContent   addClass  pageOn   removeClass  pageOff                             else                   homeContent   addClass  pageOn   removeClass  pageOff                        window  on  popstate   function                 var hash              if window location hash includes                         hash   window location hash substring window location hash indexOf        0 window location hash indexOf                     else                   hash   window location hash                             if  hash    DRS     hash    DRP     hash    DFFI     hash    DCI     hash    DCP     hash    DRP     hash    DRMA     hash    EICS     hash    ORG                      this  navigate  target    hash  Content                      if window location hash includes                          else                      location href   location href                                     else                     this  navigate  target      homeContent

User · Answer

This question and its answers led me to my own solution (with help from SO), though some say you shouldn't tamper with native prototypes:

  // IE does not support .includes() so I'm making my own:
  String.prototype.doesInclude=function(needle){
    return this.substring(needle) != -1;
  }

Then I just replaced all .includes() with .doesInclude() and my problem was solved.

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As in Internet Explorer  the javascript method  includes  doesn t support which is leading to the error as below  dijit form FilteringSelect TypeError  Object doesn t support property or method  includes   So I have changed the JavaScript string method from  includes  to  indexOf  as below    str1 doesn t match str2 w r t index  so it will try to add object var str1  acd   str2  b   if str1 indexOf str2     -1       alert  add object      else     alert  object not added

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According to the MDN reference page  includes is not supported on Internet Explorer  The simplest alternative is to use indexOf  like this   if window location hash indexOf       gt   0

User · Answer

IE11 does implement String prototype includes so why not using the official  Polyfill     if   String prototype includes        String prototype includes   function search  start          if  typeof start      number             start   0                 if  start   search length  gt  this length            return false          else           return this indexOf search  start      -1                       Source  polyfill source

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I ve used includes from Lodash which is really similar to the native

User · Answer

Adding import  core-js es7 array   to my polyfill ts fixed the issue for me

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I had a similar issue with an Angular project  In my polyfills ts I had to add both        import  core-js es7 array       import  core-js es7 object     In addition to enabling all the other IE 11 defaults   See comments in polyfills ts if using angular   After adding these imports the error went away and my Object data populated as intended

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I m using ReactJs and used import  core-js es6 string   at the start of index js to solve my problem    I m also using import  react-app-polyfill ie11   to support running React in IE11      react-app-polyfill       This package includes polyfills for various   browsers  It includes minimum requirements and commonly used language   features used by Create React App projects    https   github com facebook create-react-app blob master packages react-app-polyfill README md

[javascript] Using `window.location.hash.includes` throws “Object doesn't support property or method 'includes'” in IE11

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