Google Analytics is crashing IE8
 

Hey everyone,

I'm using Atahualpa 3.4.5 and have noticed a strange problem. Everything about it is just perfect, of course, but it comes as no surprise that IE8 has one problem with it. Firefox, Chrome, Safari...all render it perfectly.

I can add the Goggle Analytics code, 3 different ways, but I always get an error just with IE8. I can add it via:
1. ATO --> Add HTML/CSS Inserts --> HTML Inserts: Body Bottom
2. Go straight to footer.php and paste the javascript there (right below or above the bfa_ata['html_inserts_body_bottom'] call.
3. Using the Google Analytics for WordPress plugin.

All 3 of them raise the same problem. Just with IE8, I get the following error, and a totally blank page.

"Message: HTML Parsing Error: Unable to modify the parent container element before the child element is closed (KB927917)"

Any ideas?

make sure you didn't leave any blank lines in footer.php at the end. The last line should be

Indeed, I made sure that there were no gratuitous characters of any kind. Not even line breaks!

have you tried disabling your plugins and adding the google code to see if it is a plugin conflict?
If it also fails with the google plugin, try swapping to the default theme to see if it still fails

Hey juggledad, I sure did.

Since the site is actually live right now, I probably won't be able to swap that theme out until late tonight, but I'll certainly give it a try.

I also might spin up another WP instance on one of my test sites, pull in the same theme, and see what happens at the default of this particular theme (Atahualpa has been tweaked a bit..albeit only using the Atahualpa tools) and with the default WP theme.

To follow up on this, I created a second instance of WP in a sub directory, inserted Google Analytics in all 3 manners discussed above and it worked perfectly, therefore there is definitely a problem in some of my customizations of the original site.

Thanks for your help, but it looks like this one is squarely my fault!