“Send to editor” does not work in IE/Firefox (Mac or windows)

I bring up the “JavaScript Console” in Firefox and noticed these errors when i was trying to click on the “send to editor” function for my image:

Error: win.edInsertContent is not a function
Source file: https://…../wp-admin/inline-uploading.php?action=view&post=14&all=true
Line 142

Error: syntax error
Source file: javascript:void()
void()

Works for me – Mac/Firefox.

Asking for anything to work in Mac IE is like asking your gas station to carry leaded gasoline. You and the other 4 people in the country may have a use for it, but not even Microsoft’s web site supports Mac IE anymore.

I’m getting the same error now in Firefox and IE (WinXP) after upgrading to 2.0.4

Same problem here, although it worked for a while and then I get a “The uploaded file could not be moved to .” in place of the upload editor. This is the same in IE and Netscape.

I can neither upload new images nor replace existing images. What I had to do was ftp the image to the WPcontent folder where the images are located.

Is WordPress on this?

Yup, as posted in another thread, I have this problem with Firefox running on both a Win2k Pro and an Ubuntu box, and though I don’t have IE on the Ubuntu machine (heh), it doesn’t work in IE either on the Windows box. I get the Javascript error, and it does nothing.

I was missing a bunch of files in my wp-includes/js folder. That fixed it for me.

(although my quicktags are still not showing up in my HTML editor)

I just went through and replaced every file in my wp-includes/js folder with a fresh copy, and checked all the permissions, and I still have the same problem. When I hover over the “send to editor” link, it says “javascript(void)” in the bottom toolbar, and when I click it, nothing happens.

More help, please! Or a workaround — I just want to be able to use images!

Thanks,
PD

This seems to be a description of this bug.

However, it doesn’t seem to apply to me. My wordpress install is in the root of my domain (/var/www/html), and in the “Options” page all of the URIs are set to https://www.puredoxyk.com, which is the domain root. So I’m not forwarding to a different URI. Grr! For a minute there I thought I’d figured it out!

(Sorry for posting this in two places, but two threads got started with this same issue and I wanted to make sure both of them had this info.)

-PD

I get an error when using the ‘send to editor’ function in IE – “An editor instance must be focused before using this command” – haven’t a clue what that means!

No problems when using firefox and opera

Any ideas anyone

I think we should focus back to the origial question of ktula. I have the same problem and couldn’t find a fix yet. It does not make any difference whether I use Firefox or any IE version. They all do not allow me to send the image to the editor.

The firefox Javascript Console Debugger says the following:
Error: richedit is not defined
Source File: /wp-admin/inline-uploading.php?action=view&post=8
Line: 176

Error: syntax error
Source File: javascript:void()
Line: 1, Column: 5
Source Code:
void()

Perhaps anyone can figure the problem out…

very strange: I updated the js folder in wp-includes\js and tested the wordpress webapplication locally on my machine (wordpress 2.01 installed, apache 1.3, mysql 4.1) and the “send to editor” function worked.

I also updated the same folder on my remote host machine but that did not improve anything. (The files on the remote host machine were not corrupted and transferred correctly)

I think I now now the reason for that strange behaviour: the “Send To Editor” function works if I use the full link of my remote blog. e.g.:
https://web198.login-4.hoststar.at/_sonabiles/

As I have a domain name reserved for my blog almost everyone uses the URL https://www.sonabiles.at.vu/ which stays in the address text field of the browser the whole time. When using the short URL the “Send To Editor” does not work.

This is also the explanation why the “Send To Editor” works when testing a wordpress installation on my local machine with apache (as there are always the full urls in the address field of the browser)

In the options the WordPress URI is the full address

I know found a good workaround to fix this “Send To Editor” problem:
The reason for the “Send To Editor” bug to me seems that the javascript code somehow does not work when using an URL in the addressbar of the browser that does not reflect the full URL-string of the actual site (see above posting).

In order to fix that, I added a target=”_blank” to the login-link at the main page. This makes sure, that the admin-interface is always access with the correct url in the addresbar of the browser. You can see the effects of this work-around at https://www.sonabiles.at.vu/
when you click the login-link.

Besides that, I think this should be fixed in one of the next releases of wordpress.

i was trying to edit my pages form an url that forwarded me to my domain.

ie.

xyz.eu redirects to my original site : xyz.org

Send to Editor only works on the original domain ( in my case .org )

“In order to fix that, I added a target=”_blank” to the login-link at the main page.”
– Stefan21 – where exactly do i put this, what file and line number/location?

thanks!!