Index: /CKEditor/trunk/CHANGES.html
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--- /CKEditor/trunk/CHANGES.html	(revision 5924)
+++ /CKEditor/trunk/CHANGES.html	(revision 5925)
@@ -58,4 +58,5 @@
 		<li><a href="http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/5074">#5074</a> : Link target is not removed when changing to popup.</li>
 		<li><a href="http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/6408">#6408</a> : [IE] Autogrow now works correctly on Quirks.</li>
+		<li><a href="http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/6420">#6420</a> : [IE] The table properties dialog now correctly retrieves the caption text.</li>
 		<li>Updated the following language files:<ul>
 			<li><a href="http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/6427">#6427</a> : Ukrainian;</li>
Index: /CKEditor/trunk/_source/plugins/table/dialogs/table.js
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--- /CKEditor/trunk/_source/plugins/table/dialogs/table.js	(revision 5924)
+++ /CKEditor/trunk/_source/plugins/table/dialogs/table.js	(revision 5925)
@@ -605,6 +605,5 @@
 										{
 											var caption = nodeList.getItem( 0 );
-											caption = ( caption.getChild( 0 ) && caption.getChild( 0 ).getText() ) || '';
-											caption = CKEDITOR.tools.trim( caption );
+											caption = CKEDITOR.tools.trim( caption.getText() );
 											this.setValue( caption );
 										}