Cannot type in text input in IE

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1430628

  •  07-07-2019
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Question

I've been searching around for an answer to this one and I can't seem to find the solution. When I mock-up a simple HTML page with a single text input on it, I'm not able to type in it in IE6 or IE7. The HTML below is exactly what I'm testing this on.

<html>
    <head>
        <title>Input Test</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <input type="text">     
    </body>
</html>

Has anyone run across this before? I've tried various DOCTYPE declarations to try and fix the problem and they don't seem to do the trick. Maybe I haven't tried the right one yet... A side-note: I'm testing this running multipleIEs on XP running in Fusion on OS X. (that was a mouthful...)

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Solution

The problem is probably that you are testing it using multipleIEs on XP. Installing multiple instances of IE in Windows is known to cause all sorts of problems. IE relies on certain versions of certain DLLs, including IME (Input Method Editors) and others.

Installing multiple versions of IE on the same copy of Windows can and has lead to all sorts of "interesting" problems.

I'd suggest you try the same test with a copy of Windows with only a single version of IE installed. It may be inconvenient, but you would be better off using the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Images.

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