Internet Explorer: Text widget get removed when click on "Edit"

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In IE7:

Text widget under Design>Widgets get removed when click on "Edit" instead of expanding for text to be filled in.

This only happens when the text in the widget is empty and never filled, and the widget page has not been saved with the text-widget at least once! So if you add the widget and then push "edit", it is removed instead of expended to be filled in.

If text-widget is added and you puch "Save Changes", the widget can be filled in without any problem after that.

This seems similar to #6291. Confirmed to be a problem for IE7 and IE8 beta. Looks like a Javascript issue.

I'm able to reproduce this in IE6,7 and 8 beta, so it's a general Internet Explorer issue.

I can also reproduce this problem in IE6.

confirmed

This is in general true for all multiwidgets (RSS, Categories...).

I have no idea what's going on here. I can tell you what's happening, but not why.

When you click the "Edit" link, the edit.click action is fired (good), then the save.click action is fired (bad), then the remove.click action is fired (bad).

Internet explorer is applying the click bindings on source:/trunk/wp-admin/js/widgets.js@7628#L98​ and source:/trunk/wp-admin/js/widgets.js@7628#L104​ to a.widget-control-edit rather than a.widget-control-save and a.widget-control-remove, respectively.

I have tried and failed to correct this. Anyone care to step in?

there are occasional bugs in jQuery. For instance remove() and replaceWith() do not work as documented in IE. Any odds you tried using bind() instead of the overloaded click(fn) function?

​http://docs.jquery.com/Events/bind#typedatafn

D.

Using IE7

In 2.5, it was possible to get around the problem by

1. Add the txt widget
2. Save changes on the sidebar
3. _Then_ edit the txt widget

(As described by the original reporter of the bug).

Now, in 2.5.1, the problem remains, but the getaround doesn't?
Add widget then hit edit: straight away it dissapears from list.
Add widget, then save changes, then hit edit: still dissappears.
Hit edit on the last widget of the list (whether recently added or not): It dissapears.
Hit edit on any other widget on the list (not the very bottom one): It "shimmers" and then does nothing.

Good luck, looks like a hard bug. I'm gonna try firefox now.

Replying to Denis-de-Bernardy:

Any odds you tried using bind() instead of the overloaded click(fn) function?

Just tried. Didn't work.

Milestone 2.5.2 deleted

Still current.

see also: #9511

No longer valid. Now widgets are added by dragging.