Script Error: Unable to modify the parent container element before the child element is closed

Question

Script Error: Unable to modify the parent container element before the child element is closed. What should I do? I click Yes, and my web page isn't displayed.

At the beginning of my Product page code, I have: http://pastebin.com/iiUfMq1v

Everything works fine in every browser except IE8, that is the only browser that is throwing any sort of error.

Any ideas?

Ambages

Why is this tagged jQuery instead of YUI? – Trichloromethane

My bad. Thought they were also using jQuery in some way, I don't fully understand how the script works. – Ambages

Why does it look like you are using both jQuery and YUI? – Lupercalia

I completely missed the $(document).ready(function(){ at the top. – Trichloromethane

Answer 1

Please check these links

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie8-windows_other/html-parsing-error-unable-to-modify-the-parent/e64759e0-d344-42d6-b1d8-0ce27504dd71

http://afewguyscoding.com/2010/03/message-html-parsing-error-unable-to-modify-the-parent-container-element-before-the-child-element-is-closed-kb927917/

Basically it will happen when you try to update a element by javascript which is the parent of current element or the element does not render at all. I faced this issue and fixed by running the script after the page loads. i.e inside $(document).ready()

hope this helps someone..

Infestation

For me the resolution was to move the offending JQuery method call to another place outside the parent (as suggested in third link). This problem happened only on some IE 8 browsers (possibly un-patched browsers, as suggested in first link). – Queridas

Answer 2

IE has historically not allowed the DOM to be modified until after the domReady event.

Boynton

Ok, how do I determine, with my code at: pastebin.com/iiUfMq1v When the DOM is ready? – Ambages

Because then, if I know how to determine if it's ready, then I can call my code? – Ambages

When using YUI, subscribe to the domReady event. – Boynton