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copied!<p>The reason your code doesn't work in newer IE versions is because you're using obsolete (very <em>very</em> obsolete) code. You need to update to modern web standards if you expect modern browsers (including IE10) to work.</p> <p>Two issues are obvious immediately:</p> <ol> <li><p><code>document.all</code> has been deprecated for years; you shouldn't be using it -- it is non-standard and only still exists to allow backward-compatibility with ancient versions of IE (eg IE5). Modern IE versions won't like it, and it <em>definitely</em> doesn't work on browsers other an IE.</p> <p>In most cases, if you're trying to reference an element by ID (as in this case), you should use <code>document.getElementById()</code> instead.</p> <p>Further info from <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Using_Web_Standards_in_your_Web_Pages/Using_the_W3C_DOM" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Mozilla Developer Network</a>.</p></li> <li><p><code>new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.3.0")</code> is also non-standard and deprecated, and also shouldn't be used in modern browsers. Again, it is IE-specific, and was replaced from IE7 onward with the web standards alternative.</p> <p>You should replace it with <code>document.implementation.createHTMLDocument();</code>. See also the anwsers <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8227612/how-to-create-document-objects-with-javascript">here</a>.</p> <p>If you need to support IE6 or earlier then you can detect whether the browser supports the standard syntax and provide a fall back to the old ActiveX control only for old IE versions.</p></li> </ol> <p>Given that the tiny bit of code you've shown us is using two obvious and well known features that are so badly out-of-date, I would expect to see more problems of a similar nature if we were to see more of your code. Because of this, I would recommend posting some of your code on SO's sister site <a href="https://codereview.stackexchange.com/">https://codereview.stackexchange.com/</a> to get some additional feedback on how you can improve it.</p> <p>Hope that helps.</p>

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