Mike -

I'm unfamiliar with this particular situation - if you're able to,
somehow, duplicate it for us that would be very helpful.

--John



On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Mike Gale<i...@decisionz.com> wrote:
>
> I have a web site that uses jQuery to populate and manipulate drop
> down lists (option lists).
>
> They are populated by constructing the options and inserting them
> using ...html(...).
>
> The resulting markup and code passes my tests.  (I use CSE and other
> things to check.)
>
> The site runs this process over a thousand times a month, without
> glitches.
>
> Yesterday I got notification of some odd behaviour (3 cases) which I
> investigated.  (These show up in emails sent to a third party by the
> application, but not in my normal loging.  I had a meeting with those
> who get the emails.)
>
> It has happened on IE 6, 7 and 8.  In each case the browsers had an
> add-on, either infopath or Office Live Conector.
>
> What seems to have happened (from inspecting request logs and
> simulating the process) is:
>
> 1)  User clicks on selection from drop down.
>
> 2)  Browser enters value for clicked option, but the value used is not
> the current one, instead it the value present when the page first
> loaded.
>
> In other words the browser seems to be losing the current drop down /
> option values and substituting others.
>
> This has happened both:
>
> a)  When first using that drop down.
>
> b)  In a session where the same drop down (same page, same instance)
> earlier contained the right values.
>
> So it seems that those browser add-ons may be triggering unwanted
> behaviour in IE from time to time.
>
> Has anyone else seen this behaviour?
>
> Is there a known fix for it?
> >
>

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