nested tabContainer with a link inside - broken in IE9 and IE10

[nhardy]

When creating a nested (or not nested) tabContainer and placing an <a> tag inside with a javascript void function as the href, the tabContainer displays wierd behaviour. The tab labels disappear, ot change names to true and false (based on the "selected" attribute.

[bill]

Please attach a test case using the "attach file" button. It should be as small as possible to still reproduce the problem, almost always a single HTML file that we can load in the browser (i.e. not PHP, JSP, etc.).

Then, give exact instructions on how to reproduce the problem using your attached test file, including the browser and version to use.

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Alternately, you can give instructions on how to reproduce the problem with an existing test case (in the tests/ directory).

Thanks!

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[bill]

Changing status to "wontfix".

This was the IE bug where ​event handlers react to events they shouldn't, as documented in the ​Weird TabContainer Tabs Title behavior IE9 (Dojo 1.8.1) dojo-interest thread.

In brief, IIRC, the synthetically emitted attrmodified-focus was getting incorrectly caught by a listener for attrmodified-title.

[bill]

... and the workaround is to stop using

<a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick=...>

and just use

<span onclick=...>