Infos zum Thema ie javascript

JS Library für Kompatibilität ältere IEs

When using getElementById to get a reference to an element via the id attribute, IE for Windows (and some versions of Opera) will also match an element whose name attribute contains the same value.

if there's one thing that is consistent it is that Internet Explorer has the majority of the problems.

var total = $('foo').innerHTML.stripTags(); ...would give you the equivalent of textContent/innerHTML another way.