Exception in IE/Edge when attaching plot to virtual item

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It seems that IE/Edge throws the following exception

unexpected call to method or property access

when you attach a plot to an item that is not a child element of document.body (e. g. when using Riot.js or React).
This happens because of a call to getComputedTextLength() which doesn’t seem to be supported for elements that are not child nodes of the body.