Internet Explorer 9 and Textarea [#1419162]

I noticed that if the "Resizable" checbox is enabled, the webform cannot be submitted in IE9.

Further, if any fields are mandatory are not filled out and the user attempts to submit the form, any text that was filled out in the textarea disappears.

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Comment #1

quicksketch

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CreditAttribution: quicksketch commented 28 January 2012 at 04:10

Hm, this seems a bit unlikely but I can't confirm it currently because I don't have a Vista or 7 Windows VM available to test it on. Webform doesn't do anything out of the ordinary with resizable textareas though. When you say "the webform cannot be submitted", exactly how is submission prevented? If you're getting a JavaScript error on the page, I suggest trying to see where that error is coming from; any JS error on the page may cause the form to fail to submit if it's tinkering with normal form submission.

Comment #2

wemael CreditAttribution: wemael commented 25 February 2012 at 13:40

Hi, I seem to have the same issue.
in other browsers my form works fine, it's only in IE9 that the textarea seems to be emptied on submission. If the textarea is a required field this stops the user from subscribing on my website.

I've searched the internet for a solution but so far found nothing
I tried emulating the page in IE9 as IE7 but that also doesn't seem to work (or I'm doing it incorrectly)
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Comment #3

wemael CreditAttribution: wemael commented 25 February 2012 at 13:41

in my previous post I wanted to mention the use of metadata to emulate IE9 to IE7:
meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7"

Comment #4

jeffam

English

CreditAttribution: jeffam commented 9 May 2012 at 18:39

I know this is a pretty old issue, but something very similar was happening to me on a custom form created with Form API: textarea fields would not submit while the other form fields would in IE9 only. And textareas would submit when I set #resizeable to false.

I finally narrowed the culprit down to some malformed HTML before the form was rendered. In my case, it was an unclosed P tag just prior to the form. I was lead down that investigative path when I noticed that the form element was not appearing in the IE9 developer tools.

So it seems that IE9 does some strange stuff when a form tag is preceded by bad HTML. Hope this info helps someone.