Revo rich-text content not loading editor in IE8

I’m having a weird problem with a Revolution 2.0.7 install on IE8.

In the manager, all documents that use a specific template do not load the TinyMCE editor in IE8. TinyMCE loads fine with Firefox but when you load the same document in IE8 the editor does not load, and there is no ’toggle’ button at the bottom.

I’ve tried checking the template html syntax and it seems to be ok (though I’m not sure why the template syntax would affect editing in the manager).

Does anyone have any thoughts on where I should check next?

More info.

IE 8 is throwing this JS error:

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Timestamp: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:53:23 UTC


Message: Invalid argument.
Line: 7
Char: 30669
Code: 0
URI: http://www.[site].com/manager/assets/ext3/ext-all.js


Message: Could not complete the operation due to error 80020101.
Line: 7
Char: 79522
Code: 0
URI: http://www.[site].com/manager/assets/ext3/ext-all.js

Here’s a quick fix: http://www.mainelydesign.com/blog/view/tinymce-not-working-in-internet-explorer-ie8

Look for more info here: http://www.google.com/search?q=tinymce+IE8

Thanks for the tip. I’ll try it, but I’m not sure why the error would be getting thrown from extjs.

I was in the midst of trying to determine what’s different between the template that works and the one that doesn’t. The big difference is that the template that throws the extjs error has a tv with a date/time field in it. I am noticing that the date/time dropdowns are not appearing properly in IE either, which I suspect means I’ve filed this in the wrong place.

I could be wrong though.

This is an enjoyable conversation with myself

I suspect that this is related to another topic here http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,61084.msg347206.html#msg347206

Not sure which forum to post to, but I think this is NOT a tinymce thing. IE is choking on the date TV output from ExtJS.

Hi lowelife, did you end up finding a solution to this one? I’m having the exact same problem at the moment. TinyMCE isn’t showing up in IE7 either so the IE7-compatibility mode trick doesn’t work for IE8.

I think it’s an ExtJS issue. In my case it was due to having a date format input on a template variable. I filed it as a bug: (http://bugs.modx.com/issues/4111) which should be fixed in Revolution 2.1

The workaround is to change date inputs to text for now.

Quote from: harmonysteel at Apr 15, 2011, 01:44 AM

Hi lowelife, did you end up finding a solution to this one? I’m having the exact same problem at the moment. TinyMCE isn’t showing up in IE7 either so the IE7-compatibility mode trick doesn’t work for IE8.

Thanks heaps, I just did that (changed a ’Date’ TV from ’date’ input and output to ’text’ for both) and TinyMCE is working again. What a weird one!

Thanks again
Harmony