jQuery issue in Internet Explorer 8

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I am trying to get my jQuery functions to work on IE8  I am loading the library from Google s servers  http   ajax googleapis com ajax libs jquery 1 3 jquery min js    The   function      is never called  Instead  I get an error Object expected  I opened the developer and ran typeof   in the console  and it came up as undefined   I have tried going to other sites that I know use jQuery  jquery com   and those all work  is there something I might be missing here

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In short  it s because of the IE8 parsing engine   Guess why Microsoft has trouble working with the new HTML5 tags  like  section   too  It s because MS decided that they will not use regular XML parsing  like the rest of the world  Yes  that s right - they did a ton of propaganda on XML but in the end  they fall back on a  stupid  parsing engine looking for  known tags  and messing stuff up when something new comes around   Same goes for IE8 and the jquery issue with  load    get  and  post   Again  Microsoft decided to  walk their own path  with version 8  Hoping that they solve d  this in IE9  the only current option is to fall back on IE7 parsing with  lt meta http-equiv  X-UA-Compatible  content  IE EmulateIE7    gt    Oh well    what a surprise that Microsoft made us post stuff on forums again

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I had the same issue  The solution was to add the link to the JQuery file as a trusted site in IE

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I was fixing a template created by somebody else who forgot to include the doctype    lt  DOCTYPE html PUBLIC  -  W3C  DTD XHTML 1 0 Transitional  EN      http   www w3 org TR xhtml1 DTD xhtml1-transitional dtd  gt    If you don t declare the doctype IE8 does strange things in Quirks mode

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I had this problem and tried the solutions mentioned here with no success   Eventually  I realised that I was linking to the Google CDN version of the script using an http URL while the page embedding the script was an https page   This caused IE to not load jquery  it prompts the user whether they want to load only secure content   Changing the Google CDN URL to use the https scheme fixed the problem for me

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The solution in my case was to take any special characters out of the URL you re trying to access  I had a tilde     and a percentage symbol in there  and the   get   call failed silently

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The onload event does not always work on IE7 8 in  lt head gt       lt  head gt   You can force it by adding an onload script at the end of your page before the  tag as below      lt script gt      window onload       lt  script gt   lt  body gt

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Some people stumbling on this post might get this issue with jquery and IE8 because they re using    jQuery v2  Use this code    lt  -- if lt IE 9  gt       lt script src  jquery-1 9 0 js  gt  lt  script gt   lt   endif -- gt   lt  -- if gte IE 9  gt  lt  -- gt       lt script src  jquery-2 0 0 js  gt  lt  script gt   lt  -- lt   endif -- gt

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If you are using HTTPS on your site  you will need to load the jQuery library from Googles https server instead  Try this  https   ajax googleapis com ajax libs jquery 1 3 jquery min js  or the latest https   ajax googleapis com ajax libs jquery 1 5 1 jquery min js

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I had the same problems   I solved it verifying that IE8 was not configured correctly to reach the SRC URL   I changed this  it works right

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Correction   Check your script include tag  is it using   type  application javascript  src   path to jquery     change to   type  text javascript  src   path to jquery

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Maybe you have inPrivate Filtering turned on

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OK  I know that jQuery is loading   I know that jQuery textshadow js is loading   I can find both of the scripts in Developer Tools     The weird part  this code is working in the content area but not in the banner   Even with a dedicated fixIE css   AND it works when I put the css inline   That  of course  messes up FireFox    I have even put in a conditional IE span around the text field in the banner with no luck    I found no difference and had the same errors in both jquery-1 4 2 min js and jquery-1 2 6 min js   jquery textshadow js was downloaded from the jQuery site while trying to find a solution to this problem    This is not posted to the Website

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Maybe you insert two scripts it should be work    lt script src  http   ie7-js googlecode com svn version 2 1 beta4  IE8 js  gt  lt  script gt     lt script type  text javascript  src  http   ajax googleapis com ajax libs jquery 1 3 1 jquery min js  gt  script gt

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The error Object expected is raised because Jquery is not loaded  This happens because of browser security  usually IE  which does not allow you executing external javascript source code  You can correct this problem by    1  Changing browser security level to allow executing external javascript code   You can find how to do this here   OR   2  Copy-paste the jquery source code into your web page so that it won t be considered as an external script    I prefer the first solution

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The solution is to upgrade to the latest version of jQuery  I had the exact same problem and upgraded to 1 4 2 and it all works fine again in IE8   Seems to be totally backwards-compatible with all the jQuery 1 3 2 stuff I did as well so no complaints here

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I think that you have same problem as I do   Message  Permission denied Line  13 Char  27021 Code  0 URI  http   ajax aspnetcdn com ajax jquery jquery-1 3 2 min js   Because of cross domain reference  Try to host jquery js on same domain

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I was having a similar issue   Things worked in IE6  Firefox  and IE8 running in IE7 compatibility mode  but not in  normal  IE8   My solution was to put this code in the header   lt meta http-equiv  X-UA-Compatible  content  IE EmulateIE7    gt     As to why jquery isn t working in IE8 I m unclear

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jQuery is not being loaded  this is not likely specific to IE8  Check the path on your jQuery include  statement  Or better yet  use the following to the CDN    lt script type  text javascript  src    ajax googleapis com ajax libs jquery 1 3 1 jquery min js  gt   lt  script gt

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This fixed my issue in IE8    lt script type  text javascript  src  http   ajax googleapis com ajax libs jquery 1 5 2 jquery min js  gt  lt  script gt    Running on localhost  I had to change the https    to http     If I try to browse to the secure link  I get the Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage friendly warning    Always try to load your text scripts in a browswer first if there are issues

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Write  var  before variables  when you define them  IE8 dies when there is no  var

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