E.contentWindow.document.body.innerHTML does not exist

The bugtracker deleted the two quote characters from my report. The string is set empty after the equal sign.

mentioned file with applied changes

What are you doing to get the error?
What's your version of Firefox?
Did you make any other changes?

Before applying any changes it's better that we can understand exactly what we are doing, and besides that, the changes need to be done to the _source files as any changes to the compressed file that you have uploaded will be lost automatically.

Sorry for incomplete informations. Firefox 2.0.0.11 for Mac OS X.

We have indeed applied changes to FCKeditor, but only in sections that should not have to do anything with the problem (Upload path in the filemanager etc…)

I use FCKeditor in our internal CMS. The envirnoment is huge, it´s impossible to document everything that´s a bit special here: The editor is inside an hidden div, is created on the fly as needed, can be flipped with another editor dynamically… so, I cannot provide a testcase. But I can provide debugging informations.

I restored the code the way it was and catched the error:

try {
 if (E.contentWindow) E.contentWindow.document.body.innerHTML='';
} catch (errr) {
 alert(E.tagName + " | " + E.id + " | " + errr);
}

The Tag that is causing the message is the IFRAME tag. The error message is: Type Error: E.contentWindow.document.body has no properties

Now I try to find out, where in hierarchie the object starts to be undefined.

alert(E.contentWindow);

E.contentWindow does exists and is "Object Window"

E.contentWindow.document exists and is "Object HTML document"

Finally:

alert(E.contentWindow.document.body);

results to "null".

OK. We don´t have a body here. But what do we have? I make a list of childNodes that indeed exist:

try {
  if (E.contentWindow) E.contentWindow.document.body.innerHTML='';
 } catch (errr) {
  for(zzz=0 ; zzz<E.contentWindow.document.childNodes.length ; zzz++ ) {
   alert(E.contentWindow.document.childNodes[zzz].innerHTML );
 }
}

I unfortunately can´t copy the content of alert boxes in Mac OS X, but I only get one reply, and that is a HEAD section. No BODY. I upload a screenshot. The HEAD section contains a customized css file. To be on the safe side I remove our css:

FCKConfig.EditorAreaCSS = '' ;

That does not remove the problem.

So, finally, I simplyfy my workaround to

if (E.contentWindow.document.body ) E.contentWindow.document.body.innerHTML='';

That solves it for me, but does not explain the problem. Please let me know if I can help any further.

Bye, Jörg

P.S.: The problem also occurs under Windows, tested with Firefox 2.0.0.4 (Mac was the recent 2.0.0.11 one)

In the meantime we found out that

if (E.contentWindow.document.body ) E.contentWindow.document.body.innerHTML='';

broke sourcecode-mode, so we reverted back to

if (E.contentWindow && E.contentWindow.document && E.contentWindow.document.body ) E.contentWindow.document.body.innerHTML='';

The code ratti is talking about has been introduced with [770], which aims to restrict memory leaks when switching between WYSYWYG and Source views.

The proposed patch removes [770]. I was not able to detect any difference or improvement with those lines of code.

As we don't have a ticket for [770], I couldn't find any information on how to detect that leak. Maybe Martin has further to say about it.

In any case ratti, we are not able to reproduce the problem, which makes any attempt to fix this ticket senseless. Also, does it happen when loading the editor, or when doing some kind of operation on it?

We have a CMS where you can click pencils to edit HTML elements. The js errormessage appears immediately when the editor opens, and it does not contain the HTML code it should contain. The sourcecode was completely empty until the last release two weeks ago. Now it contains

<br type="_moz" />

, but that appears in every empty editor sincle last release, so I think we should count it as „empty“.

To create the editor a lot dynamic html/js is done, the editor is a hidden layer inside other hidden layers. That might be the reason why my problem is not reproducable. For example, my style menue doesn´t have scrollbars while it has if I just plain use the editor. FCKeditor seems to behave differently when made invisible/visible.

I can offer to setup an empty CMS website where you can see the problem in action. But since I have to create an admin account I would not do that in a public bugtracker.

The fix in [770] doesn't seem to do anything to help the memory leak problem. So it's reasonable to remove it in order to fix this bug.

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