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Operation Aborted occurs when you use DOM methods to insert content into an element that hasn't been completely parsed yet. It understandably confuses the parser when there's still new content to come in the element... where should it go, in relation to the added-by-DOM content? How does it interact with innerHTML? There's no consistent answer.

<div id="x">
    ...
    <script type="text/javascript">
        document.getElementById('x').appendChild(document.createElement('p')); // fail
    </script>
    ...
</div>

Quite often the element in question is <body>. Don't attempt to append things to the body in code that runs during the parsing of the body.

IE7 and 8 behave slightly differently in the face of this error, but are still affected.

Microsoft's explanation.

bobince 2009-12-04 16:08:38

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In my experience, it is quite common for these errors to occur when you build a Joomla website using extensions that use the JQuery JavaScript library. Many extension developers forget to avoid that JQuery will use the same initial variable as MooTools, and this will cause IE to throw the operation aborted error message. The solution is to Google for the JQuery noconflict setting and insert that into the code of any extensions using JQuery. It sounds complex, but although I can't remember the fine details now, afterwards you'll find it easy enough with hindsight.

E Wierda 2009-12-12 21:36:17

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You can get this when an extenson injects JavScript into the body. In my expereince it's usually an extension related problem.

Check the template first by adding &tmpl=component to a page showing the error. This should display the content with out the template; if the error still appears it's a template problem. If it still appears then it's an extension and you need to find out which one.

First, try a scan of the page source for 'domready' - this is a MooTools event that is known to cause this problem. You can usually replace the event with ;load' to fix it.

Disable all content modules and then re-enable them one by one until the error re-appears.

Good luck, Bob

GreyHead 2009-12-14 09:10:16

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