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Jquery ui autocomplete not working in ie8 (while page refresh)

I am using jquery ui autocomplete, it works absolutely fine in all browsers except ie8.

I've been doing some tests and there seems to be a strange error. When I click on the link leading to the corresponding page, the following error is generated by ie8 when I start typing in the autocomplete field:

'object does not support this property or method' this error points to my development jQuery file (1.4.2) at line 4955, char 5, which is the following line: return new window.XMLHttpRequest ();

However, if I just reload the page the autocomplete works.

I added a random bit of data that gets called with autocomplete when I read that ie8 is caching its ajax get requests, but that didn't seem to solve the problem.

Could there be a problem with the load times of all relevant files including jquery? If so, how do I fix this? Any other smart ideas ?!

Andy

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After a lot of trial and error, I found the answer to be very simple!

I was calling the meta tag ...

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />


... after including javascript files. All other browsers except IE8 allow this.

This will be a lesson that I will not forget soon - many hours spent on fixing!

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It looks like you are trying to use an asynchronous Ajax call synchronously.

You have to use a callback function where you return data.

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You have to set up a synchronous call:

jQuery.ajax( {async: false} );
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