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A very recent change that has been deployed is preventing me from asking new questions or editing existing questions using Internet Explorer 11. (Yes, it is a supported browser.)

When asking a new question or editing an existing one, the tag bar appears in plain text, and the submit button is always disabled.

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Why is this happening?

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    See also: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/371290/… (appears to also affect Safari, though I can't say which version(s))
    – Shog9
    Jul 19, 2018 at 19:36
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    I'm not 100% sure but I think in tageditornew.en.js this line needs fixing: editor.addClass("s-input").css({paddingTop: 0, paddingTop: 0}); the double paddingTop is not allowed.
    – rene
    Jul 19, 2018 at 19:43
  • yep, that's it @rene
    – Shog9
    Jul 19, 2018 at 19:53
  • blame a relaxed jslint rule ...
    – rene
    Jul 19, 2018 at 20:00

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As rene pointed out in the comments, this appears to have been triggered by a newly-added bit of code in the tag editor which tries to set the same property twice in a single call.

That's... likely a typo; I changed one of the paddingTop properties to paddingBottom and the page loads on IE just fine.

This fix should now be live.

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  • Correct CSS is "padding-top", not "paddingTop" - no? Unless CSS changed drastically since I learned the basics and it allows JS style syntax? Anyway, guess jQuery changes it by itself otherwise it wouldn't be working at all, just neat picking here. :-)
    – Shadow The GPT Wizard
    Jul 19, 2018 at 21:39
  • @ShadowWizard The DOM style properties JS interacts with are camel case.
    – Alexander O'Mara
    Jul 19, 2018 at 21:43
  • CSS also doesn't care about duplicate rules, @Shadow. The jQuery call - .css({style properties}) - takes an object, and JS sometimes does mind duplicate object properties. Note also that while the CSS property is padding-top, the equivalent DOM property is paddingTop - not that this is relevant.
    – Shog9
    Jul 19, 2018 at 21:44
  • Well, I'm using that .css({style properties}) myself sometimes, but always gave the "CSS case", not JS camelCase. Admit that I never looked into it, just seemed like the proper way. Anyhow... thanks for the quick fix, on behalf of all the IE11 users! :) (Which I'm not among them.)
    – Shadow The GPT Wizard
    Jul 19, 2018 at 21:54
  • @ShadowWizard jQuery allows you to pass properties either as camelCase or as in CSS. It then internally converts the names into camelCase.
    – Toothbrush
    Jul 20, 2018 at 8:26

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