Comments on: Internet Explorer Javascript Errors

By: tony

tony — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:59:07 +0000

I had this error in IE6 – 9 and tried all different ways with commas etc. My error was because I had used but jQuery and $ in the same function. I usually use jQuery as wordpress conflicts and now do it by habit but the $ was not working, as soon as I made it jQuery all worked.
Just in case you find this its worth checking.
Tony

By: DArkSide

DArkSide — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:47:16 +0000

You saved my day. I was using variable named "default" lol

By: igor

igor — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:41:33 +0000

Thanks, just started to search for solution and here it is..I thought it will take much more time

By: Bhavik mehta

Bhavik mehta — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:34:18 +0000

thanx buddy… didnt notice the comma at the end… u saved my entire facebook app!..

ps: IE sucks!

By: nick

nick — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:02:44 +0000

I have any error in java script on my website home page it says: Object dosent sport this property or method source ( http://www.radissontravels.com/index.html) Line 1404. Any body help me regard this

By: Everett

Everett — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:24:09 +0000

I agree with Pete, FF should not be so nice with errors. Of course, IE’s errors are so cryptic it takes a million years to figure out something as simple as a comma. It was in a totally unrelated location.

Like Franta, I repeat the question: does anyone know how to interpret the line and char numbers IE reports? It’s not line number in the source html or js document. It doesn’t seem to be line number in the script tag either.

(My ulterior motive to wishing FF was more strict is that I much prefer debugging js in firebug than in IE. I don’t have Visual Studio, nor would it be convenient to purchase.)

By: kingschnulli

kingschnulli — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:59:26 +0000

the comma thing was just what i was searching for – thanks for the notes buddy.

By: Sasha T.

Sasha T. — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:50:43 +0000

Yap, IE hates commas (,) on everything… I was lucky enough for IE to display proper error lines so it was a peace of cake finding errors but I can’t imagine what would happen in a larger JS file….

By: cailie

cailie — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:22:39 +0000

I award you my “Hero of the Day” award. Thank you!

By: Ashok Ramchandani

Ashok Ramchandani — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:35:01 +0000

Error: Expected identifier
One more reason for error message saying “Expected identifier” is when we use some reserved keyword in our javascript code. I encountered the same problem. My code was somthing like:

testFunc = function (test, class) {

}

IE gave me error saying “Expected Identifier”. As the error message is not very descriptive I had a tuff time finding out the solution. The actual problem is class is a reserved word in IE browser so we can’t use it in our javascript code.