IE 11 not displaying events

Hi ProMedia_Design,

I don’t have access to a machine running IE right now but a colleague who does was able to confirm what you are seeing. I’d be interested to know if the same problem crops up if all other plugins are deactivated and a default, unmodified theme (such as Twenty Twelve) is in use?

Let us know!

Barry,
I’m having issues with IE 11users not seeing events they posted under “My Events” events/community/list.

From one of my members wrote: “when I click on “My Events” all I get is a blank page that allows me to add a new event, no display of or option to edit existing events.”

“When I click on the link to submit or edit it takes me to https://sledmass.com/events/community/list and there is no display of the link “My Events.” I have to manually enter the url https://sledmass.com/events/community/add and then I get the link for “My Events”, but none are displayed, only a blank page with the option to add an event.”

Hope this helps.
Dan

Hi Dan, it’s best to create a new thread of your own as per the guidelines in the forum welcome – especially as your question doesn’t seem to relate to The Events Calendar (but rather the Community Events add-on).

However, with that in mind, you should be aware that we don’t support that particular add-on here and the appropriate venue for help is our Community Events forum.

Thanks!

Barry,

We figured out the problem with IE11. It was actually looking for the default “Search” placeholder text in the field. Once we removed that from the code, it works perfectly.

We went in the events-calender-class.php and line 4161 removed “search” from the ‘placeholder=’ field.

Hope that helps!

OK – I suspect in that case it isn’t so much the placeholder attribute in our code that is the problem as perhaps something called a polyfill script that is perhaps bundled with your theme or a plugin you are using.

The idea (in this case) is they detect browsers that don’t support placeholders and instead take the placeholder value (“Search”) and add that as the initial value of the field – but, in this case, it sounds like it perhaps A) is not clearing up after itself by removing that text when a page load or form submission takes place B) is mistakenly adding this pseudo-placeholder support in a browser – IE11 – that actually supports it anyway.

I’m highlighting this because I want to be clear this doesn’t sound like a bug in our plugin and we generally don’t recommend editing core code in the manner you described – and wanted that to be clear to other users.

You can bear this theory out by running our plugin on a fresh WP installation with a default theme like Twenty Twelve: the placeholder attribute will be in use but you shouldn’t see this behaviour.

Glad in any case you arrived at a solution ??