Richfaces Compatibility Problems with Internet Exp

Question

I am developing a web application using RichFaces / JSF. The application behaved as expected on Safari, Mozilla, Chrome, and IE 9, however, I encountered serious compatibility problems with IE 11.

• When a rich:modalPanel opens up, the dialog and buttons are completely greyed out.
• The h:inputTextArea displays all of the server side code generated as opposed to being empty.
• When I click the rich:calendar icon, it does not popup a calendar, even though I have set popup to true in the attributes.

I do not encounter any of the above problems in any other browser except for IE 11

When I debugged my web application in IE 11 Developer Tools, some messages related to the above mentioned problems were:

• The function is undefined or null: selectNodes (JavaScript)
• RichFaces skin issues

I am running JBoss version 4.2.1.GA and RichFaces version 3.3.2

Thanks.

Answer 1

RichFaces 3 is only supported in Internet Explorer ≤ 8. Try using the the Meta Tag http-equiv to set the document mode to IE 8.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff966528(v=vs.85).aspx

Or better yet, upgrade to RichFaces 4 (4.3.4 at the time of this answer) for support on the latest Internet Explorer releases. RichFaces 3 is old!