PRB: Cannot Edit IFRAME in a Web Page Dialog Box in Internet Explorer 5.5

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Symptoms

If you call the window.showModalDialog or window.showModelessDialog methods to place an IFRAME in a Web page dialog box, you cannot edit the IFRAME, even if you set the iframe.document.designMode property to "On".

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Cause

This problem occurs because the iframe.document.designMode="On" property does not work in Internet Explorer 5.5.

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Resolution

To resolve this problem, use the new iframe.document.body.contentEditable = "True" property in Internet Explorer version 5.5.

Note: The iframe.document.body.contentEditable = "True" property is not available in Internet Explorer 5.

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Status

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

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More information

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Use window.showModalDialog or window.showModelessDialog to open the following HTML file in Internet Explorer 5.5:

<html>
<head>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=javascript>
function window_onload() {
	textEdit.document.body.contentEditable = "True"; //This line works in Internet Explorer 5.5,
                                                          // but not in Internet Explorer 5.
	textEdit.document.designMode="On"; //This line works in Internet Explorer 5, 
                                            // but not in Internet Explorer 5.5.
	textEdit.focus();
}
</SCRIPT>
</head>
<body onload="return window_onload()" language="javascript">
<iframe name="textEdit" id="textEdit" width="400" height="280"></iframe>
</body>
</html>

Notice that you can edit the textEdit IFRAME in Internet Explorer 5, but not in Internet Explorer 5.5.

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References

For more information on the MSHTML editing platform in Internet Explorer 5.5, see the following Microsoft Web site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/browser/default.asp

For more information about developing Web-based solutions for Microsoft Internet Explorer, visit the following Microsoft Web sites:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie/

http://support.microsoft.com/iep

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