Issues with Prototype’s Element.replace() in Internet Explorer

April 3rd, 2008

In older versions of Prototype, at least, Element.replace() handles HTML elements using their outerHtml property. This causes problems on Internet Explorer, because the outerHtml property is read-only for some elements:

The property is read/write for all objects except the following, for which it is read-only: CAPTION, COL, COLGROUP, FRAMESET, HTML, TBODY, TD, TFOOT, TH, THEAD, TR.

This issue seems to have been fixed already several months ago with a workaround.

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