Fixed: IE8/IE9 cannot use <template id="my-template"> instead of <script id="my-template">

[franktopel]

Wrapping templates in <template>-tags instead of <script type="text/html">-tags does not work in Internet Explorer 8 and 9.

Supporting IE 8 and 9 in your knockout project forces you to use <script>-tags to wrap your templates. Using <template>-tags leads to these templates being evaluated at page load rather than when the template is being instantiated at run-time - which ofc leads to the bindings within the template failing because in most cases there will not yet be data/the objects being used available.

[mbest]

Implementation note: This should be as simple as adding <template> to the list of elements to skip while binding, in addition to <script> and <textarea>.

[franktopel]

I've tested your suggestion and it looks like that's all that must be done.

I've forked bindingAttributeSyntax.js and implemented your suggested fix in the fork:

https://github.com/knockout/knockout/blob/32628d0d8ce1089555eccfcfdacb8fc860edcbf2/src/binding/bindingAttributeSyntax.js

Hope this helps, though I'm unsure if I applied the right process for contributing a fix since this is my first submission ever.

[franktopel]

I've added a pull request for the fix: https://github.com/knockout/knockout/pull/1785/files

[mbest]

Fixed.