25AprOperation Aborted in IE7 (WordPress+Lightbox)

I will keep this very short. If you’re getting the “Operation Aborted” message on your WordPress site, it may be related to a Lightbox version with some old world coding.
Just make sure you’re using Lightbox by Rupert Morris.
The offending code in the “bad” version started with:
objBody.appendChild...
This was in the initialize function of the class that loaded along with the script in load-time. In other words, it was attempting to add child nodes to the <body> while the body tag was still being loaded (and had not yet been closed). IE7 apparently really doesn’t like this.


  1. 1 Dysantic Mac OS X Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 15 May 2008

    One thousand “thank you”s! I wondered if I was the only one who was experiencing this issue. Seems to be fixed now, thanks to your helpful post!

  2. 2 Tanin Windows Vista Internet Explorer 7.0 16 May 2008

    You’re very welcome.

  3. 3 Rupert Morris Mac OS X Mozilla Firefox 3.0 21 May 2008

    Wicked. I’m glad you figured out that rather obscure error in code.
    PS new version of said plugin is out as of right now.


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