BUG: Popup submits form

[joshm7711]

having an issue on front end where the calendar pop out is submitting the form.

 

[joshm7711]

these users are mostly on IE8 and cannot upgrade due to other web apps.

 

[cheesegrits]

Can you point me at the page?

We can't really support IE8 any more, we support the previous two major releases of any given browser, and we're now up to IE11, so we support IE9, IE10 and IE11. But I can do my best to see if there's something obvious we can fix.

-- hugh

 

[joshm7711]

unfortunately its an intranet page at my work. I will try to get it ported over to an external facing page tonight.

 

[joshm7711]

is there a way to make that strictly an image that pops out the calendar on click rather then an actual button ?

 

[troester]

You could hide the calendar date picker via CSS.
Try adding

$x =$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
$browser = get_browser($x,true);
$version = (int)($browser['version']);
if ($browser['browser']=='IE' && $version < 9) {
echo "
#$form button.calendarbutton {display:none}";
}

just before ?> at the end of custom_css.php

But there are a lot of other issues with IE8 and Fabrik (googlemap, fileupload...).

 

[cheesegrits]

I was about to say I don't even have IE8 to test with any more, then I had a thought and did some googling, and sure enough ... Microsoft provide virtual machines for testing purposes for every OS / verison of IE ... so I'm downloading a Virtual Box appliance of Windows 7 with IE8 to test this with:

http://modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads

-- hugh

 

[cheesegrits]

OK, I've now got a Windows 7 / IE8 VM running in VirtualBox, and have replicated the issue with the date button submitting the form. Looking at the problem now.

-- hugh

 

[cheesegrits]

There's all kinds of issues starting to crop up for IE8, partly us, but also in a lot of the third party libraries used by Joomla, other extensions, and us. I'm still struggling to get a clean page load without errors.

I'll continue to look at this, but it's looking more and more like IE8 is a lost cause.

-- hugh