jWizard radio buttons in IE 6, 7 about jwizard

[dominicbarnes]

Hi there, sorry it took so long to respond to this!

In any case, I was able to recreate the problem you are referring to. Upon further research, I actually found out that this is a bug in jQuery UI itself. (see: http://bugs.jqueryui.com/ticket/3611)

I'm going to take some time to look into this, but even if I submit a patch to jQuery UI, it's unlikely it'll be released in the very near future, since I believe they just released a new version in the past few weeks.

Also, I am running Linux as my primary OS, so it's very difficult for me to diagnose the exact source of the problem since it's IE-specific. Any technical information you may have available would help immensely.

Thanks for using jWizard, I'm glad it's proven useful for you. :)

[ivoloshin]

Dominic,

Thanks for the response. As a workaround I added the following:

_restoreRadioButtons: function() {
if ( $.browser.msie &amp;&amp; $.browser.version < 8 )
{
$.each($(':radio'), function(index, domElem) {
var newRadioButton = $(domElem).clone(true);
$(domElem).replaceWith(newRadioButton);
});
}
},

I then called it inside _changeStep after self._effect(nextStep, "step", "show", "show");

This is based on IE6 adn 7 not being able to change attributes on dynamically created elements. I cannot find the exact link talking about it, but I believe that's the real issue...

Thanks!
Ilya

[dominicbarnes]

So, I decided to be thorough, and I went to investigate this and hopefully submit a patch to jquery/ui in the end.

However, I actually came to discover that this is actually a bug in IE6/7 with their implementation of appendChild. It clears checkboxes and radio buttons whenever they are passed through appendChild.

It looks like this has been seen in other bug reports within both jQuery and jQuery UI, and the consensus has been that this is too obscure of an edge-case to put into jQuery itself.

Sorry about that, looks like your workaround function will have to do. :P