IE Error: cannot open the internet site, operation aborted

Posted by fragov in hacksJun 24th, 2009 | no responses

It’s error arises then JavaScript trying to add elements in existing DOM-structure.
Check this example:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Internet Explorer: Operation Aborted. Sample error.</title>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<script>
document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('div'))
</script>
</table>
</body>
</html>

There are two ways to avoid this:

  1. Run script in windows.onload function: 
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
 <html>
 <head>
   <title>Internet Explorer: Operation Aborted. Sample solution.</title>
   </head>    <body>
   <ul>
      <script>
       window.onload = function(){
        document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('div'))
      }
  </script>
  </ul>
 </body>
 </html>
  2. Or add to javascript tag parameter defer=”defer”: 
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<html>
 <head>
  <title>Internet Explorer: Operation Aborted. Sample error.</title>
 </head>
 <body>
  <table>
    <script defer="defer">
     document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('div'))
      </script>
    </table>
  </body>
 </html>

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