Comments on: JavaScript Invalid Argument in Internet Explorer Only

By: Hombre

Hombre — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:10:08 +0000

Thanks man.. saved me a lot work!

By: Frank Kim

Frank Kim — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:56:11 +0000

Hi Krithi,
My other guess is that one of the URL’s on your page has a space in it. Try testing your function on a simple page with one anchor. Make the URL in the anchor have a space and see if you can reproduce the problem.
-Frank

By: Krithi

Krithi — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:30:41 +0000

yes it occurs only in IE.any other clue to check it.

By: Frank Kim

Frank Kim — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:46:27 +0000

Hi Krithi,
Not sure what that error could be. Is it an IE only issue? Your code doesn’t have the window.open which was causing the problem I found in this post.
-Frank

By: Krithi

Krithi — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:33:05 +0000

Even i am getting the following
Line: 14
Character: 4
Code: 0
Error Message: Invalid argument.
in an external.js file.

Really struggling with the error.
this is that js file
function goExternalLinks() {
if (!document.getElementsByTagName) return;
var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName(“a”);
for (var i=0; i {
var anchor = anchors[i];
if (anchor.getAttribute("href") && anchor.getAttribute("rel") == "external")
anchor.target = "_blank";
}
please need response urgently

By: Frank Kim

Frank Kim — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:57:15 +0000

Jared, try %20 in your URL for a space.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1634271/url-encoding-the-space-character-or-20

By: Jared - Regina Web Design

Jared - Regina Web Design — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 06:29:35 +0000

Do you know if you can put in some sort of character sequence to get the spaces if you want them?

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 16 May 2011 05:05:32 +0000

Thank you for this! Saved me the trouble of having to look further into the issue.

By: drew8

drew8 — Wed, 04 May 2011 20:58:20 +0000

ie7 has the same issue. Funny thing is that lots of Government agencies still using it!

By: Alexis

Alexis — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:52:37 +0000

The Stupid IE9 Continues with this issue,

thanks so much for your sharing