Why does IE9 ignore these javascript links but produces no errors?

Question

At the bottom of this Magento product page you can see three tabs (Additional Info, Description and Tags) but it is impossible to switch between them in Internet Explorer 9 (even if I add the site to the trusted site group). The IE Javascript console (via F12) doesn't show one single error or warning.

What is going on?

Answer 1

I had this on a site I did last year - this isn't a new site, right? Some used to use the technique of forcing IE9 into IE8 mode using;

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" /> 

but I fixed my issue using this thread;

http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/219259/#t328876

Reposted here for link rot, in template/catalog/product/view/tabs.phtml

you remove the ordered list (ol);

showContent: function(a) {
    var li = $(a.parentNode), ul = $(li.parentNode);
    ul.select('li', 'ol').each(function(el){

Would become;

showContent: function(a) {
    var li = $(a.parentNode), ul = $(li.parentNode);
    ul.select('li').each(function(el){

(I've not copied the full function out, it's only that last line that changes).

Hope that helps you too.

EDIT - Yes I checked - the file and directory structure for the collateral info like this has since gone, but for CE 1.5 there was a tabs.phtml file in product/view/