AngularJS is undefined in IE8

javascript internet-explorer internet-explorer-8 angularjs

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Solution 1

So this was totally my bad (or the guy that started this app months ago).

My application controller had var angular = angular || {} at the top, IE8 didn't agree with this declaration.

After removing that all is well.

Solution 2

I've been working with IE8 for six months now, feel your pain.

Without seeing your code it's hard exactly to say what's wrong

Here's a very very basic page I just tested with IE8, for you to compare against:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8">
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Prompt Detail View</title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="">
    <meta name="author" content="">

    <!-- disable browser cache -->
    <meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="max-age=0" />
    <meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache" />
    <meta http-equiv="expires" content="0" />
    <meta http-equiv="expires" content="Tue, 01 Jan 1980 1:00:00 GMT" />
    <meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache" />


    <!--[if lte IE 8]>
    <script>
        document.createElement('ng-include');
        document.createElement('ng-pluralize');
        document.createElement('ng-view');
        // Optionally these for CSS
        document.createElement('ng:include');
        document.createElement('ng:pluralize');
        document.createElement('ng:view');
    </script>
    <![endif]-->

    <!-- Le HTML5 shim, for IE6-8 support of HTML5 elements -->
    <!--[if lt IE 9]>
          <script src="//html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
        <![endif]-->

    <script src="js/jquery-1.7.2.min.js"></script>
    <script src="js/angular-1.0.2.js" ng:autobind></script>


<script>
var pageModule = angular.module('pageModule',[])
.controller('pageCtrl',function($scope) {
   $scope.foo = 'my foo'; 
});

</script>
</head>


<body>
    <div ng-app="pageModule"
        ng-controller="pageCtrl">
            {{foo}}
    </div>
</body>
</html>

Solution 3

I also had the same issue, my IE9 browser didn't recognize any AngularJs tag, after trying everything I decided to run the html file in a server and it worked.

To summerize, when I executed the file as follows it didn't work

file:///C:/AngularJS/firstTest.html

when I executed the file in the server as follows it did work

http://localhost:7001/AngularJS/firstTest.html

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joseym

Updated on June 17, 2022

Comments

joseym almost 2 years

I'm working on a massive application that uses AngularJs.

When I view the page in IE8 I get super nifty console errors like Object doesn't support property or method 'module', Object doesn't support property or method 'widget', unable to get value of the property 'controller': object is null or undefined, and IE really sucks, cant you just tell them to download chrome?

After fighting with it for a while I decided to log the typeof angular, to which the console returned undefined.

Everything works as expected in IE9, IE10, and all browsers that don't suck.

Please help!

Edit:

It appears that angular is undefined before it gets to my first controller, so I don't think it has to do with the ieshim ...