Comments on: Internet Explorer and innerHTML in PRE elements

By: James

James — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:18:29 +0000

Thanks for this post! I just noticed the same thing in IE7 and was
amazed that I'd found yet *another* IE bug. Miserable. At least
finding this post lets me know I'm sane and not just missing
something. As a side effect of this bug, doing this: elem.innerHTML
= elem.innerHTML Completely removes all linebreaks. Stupid IE.

By: dense13

dense13 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:02:14 +0000

Great! As soon as I get a chance I'll try the new version. I actually missed out on 0.5, oops...

By: gnombat

gnombat — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:50:20 +0000

Getting innerHTML to work consistently in different browsers is
tricky. You may be able to get it to work by using BR elements and
nbsp entities, but the DOM methods usually behave more consistently
across browsers. I have been working on SHJS so that it will
preserve existing tags when highlighting (using DOM methods,
without using innerHTML). This feature is now available in version
0.6alpha1.