"TypeError: Cannot read property 'focus' of undefined" when using md-tabs

[gpiancastelli]

Issue #6776 has been abruptly closed (and discussion restricted) four days ago with a comment about a bug in Angular 1.5.4 due to a change which was being reverted. However, the original report used Angular 1.5.0, so it's hardly believable that the culprit could be a change that was not even made at that time.

Others in that thread reported the problem was not present in 1.5.3. But I recently had to downgrade to Angular 1.4.8 in order to have that TypeError disappear.

Specifically, it had to do with md-tabs. I was unable to had tabs shown in the most simple document while working with a bunch of combinations involving Angular 1.5.4, 1.5.5, 1.5.3, and Angular Material 1.1.0rc3. I maintain that md-tabs do not work correctly with any 1.5.x version of Angular. Also, on the Angular Material website, the Angular version used on the demos page is... guess what? 1.4.8. How convenient.

[ThomasBurleson]

@gpiancastelli -

• Thank you for the alert that the docs are still using 1.4.8. This is an oversight that will be corrected. Our package.json, in fact, specifies ^1.5.0.
• If the TypeError: Cannot read property 'focus' of undefined in MdTabsController.redirectFocus #6776 issue manifests in pre-1.5.4 releases, then it should not have been closed.

We will investigate this issue.

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[ThomasBurleson]

@gpiancastelli - I am unable to reproduce any Tabs error with 1.5.5. Can you provide steps to reproduce this issue ?

[ThomasBurleson]

Similar to #4388. May be fixed with #6684.

[devversion]

@ThomasBurleson The PR #6684 is not updated anymore, I will resubmit a working PR if desired, just assign the issue to me if so.

[gpiancastelli]

@ThomasBurleson I can confirm that Angular 1.5.5 does indeed work. Probably a browser cache issue on my part.

[ThomasBurleson]

@gpiancastelli - Thank you for the update/reply. Closing this as a non-issue.