internet-explorer-6

Div at bottom of window and adaptable height div

Is there a way to get a div to always be at the bottom of the window, and another div to change its height to fill any space that it leaves, and that div will scroll if its content is too long. (I never want the window to scroll). This is best illustrated by a picture: The green div will always put itself at the bottom of the window,...

Dropdown menu in IE6 inserting too much width, not dropping-down

I have a CSS dropdown menu which is working great in IE7, FF, Safari, and Opera (on PC, haven't been able to test on Mac yet). Unfortunately in IE6 - which my clients on this project are all using, urgh - the menu stretches too wide and covers the site logo. Also, none of the dropdowns work. To some extent I could live with the dropdo...

Tooltip gets hidden behind controls in IE6!

Hi, While mousing over a particular label in my web application, the tooltip that has to be displayed gets hidden behind the adjacent control, thereby providing less visibility. It works in IE7 and Firefox properly, but not in IE6.Any possible solution to this problem? Thanks, Geetha ...

IE6: span (inline) with background-image

I'm trying to find a good why to display my Icons. I want to use a CSS and not an img tab. My code: <span id="Span1" class="iconPrinter"></span> .iconPrinter{background:url(../images/BWIcons.gif) no-repeat 0 0; padding:0 8px;} or .iconPrinter{background:url(../images/BWIcons.gif) no-repeat 0 0; width:16px;} It works fine on FF bu...

window.close is not working in IE 6

I am using window.close() for closing window by clicking on button its not working in IE 6. Is there any jquery solution ...

Reading form action property in IE6, if form has a field named "action"

Given the form below: <form id="myForm" action="index.php"> <input type="hidden" name="action" value="list" /> <input type="submit" /> </form> How can I get the value for the action property of the form (index.php) using IE6? Hint: I have tried document.getElementById('myForm').action and document.getElementById('myForm')...

window.print IE6 and jQuery

For some reason, in Internet Explorer 6, I cannot get window.print(); to actually work within jQuery. Any ideas why this isnt working? <script> $(document).ready(function(){ function print() { window.print(); return false; } $("a#test").click(function() { print(); }); }); </script> Here is my jsbin: http://jsbin.com/...

Protect IE6 from exploits when testing?

I wrote an app in C# which uses the webbrowser control. While using it, the site i happen to use it on had an ad that auto DLed and ran itself on my comp causing me to be very annoyed. According to safebrowsing.clients.google.com 2/5000 pages had this exploit, unlucky me. I use IE6 for testing so what can i do to protect myself from tho...

Open select ie6

Hi all. I searched for a way to open a select element (combobox like) in ie6 from javascript. document.getElementById("sel1").click(); This method works fine in Firefox but doesn't in ie6. So does anyone know a way to do that? ...

$.ajax misfire in ie6

Hi, I'm using the flickr api to create a simple gallery based on images pulled in by their tag. The gallery is working fine in every browser except ie6. When you navigate to the page (by clicking a link) in ie6, the $.ajax success/error code blocks refuse to fire, however when the page is reloaded, or navigated to directly (by entering...

Add to favorites in JavaScript for IE6+, FF and Safari

I tried some "add to favorties" JavaScript scripts.. With IE8, I get an "access denied" (is that even possible to add a bookmark via JS with IE8?) and it just doesn't work with IE6... Anybody has a good script that works on most browsers? Thanks! ...

IE6 breaks cached design

I have a design which loads nicely in IE6, but as soon as I reload it 1-2 times, it all of a sudden collapses. When I upload an updated version, it recovers from it, and breaks after a few reloads. On a sidenote: I can't test the site on a "real" IE6, I'm using the IEtester found here: IE Tester Maybe it's a problem with this program? ...

IE6 performance issues with adding className on multiple elements (jQuery tableHover plugin)

In an application I write that uses a large HTML table of numbers the design requires that the row and column of the hovered cell will be highlighted. I develop all the JS for this project using jQuery 1.3.x, and I found the tableHover plugin that does exactly what I need. But: on IE6 the performance of this plugin drops down as the n...

javascript memory leak

Hi, I'm trying to solve a problem with a memory leak in IE with Javascript. Basicaaly I'm using javascript to add icons on top of an image then I need to refresh the icons periodically by deleting them and re-adding them. When I run the app through drip though (IE6 memory usage indicating tool), when I delete the images before redrawin...

There seems to be some IE incompatible javascript here. Are there any browser compatibility experts around?

This javascript works fine in FF v3.5.3, but not in IE 6.02. Can someone who is experienced in IE JS compatiblity please review this code for possible incompatibilities? I didn't include the code for all the functions being called because that would make my code sample huge, but I have tested the functions before in IE and they worked. I...

how to show special page for IE6 users requesting them to upgrade in ASP.NET MVC

Just like the every other web developer, I'm frustrated to hack my site code to work with IE 6. So decided to give up support for IE 6 and ask them politely to upgrade to IE 7+ or Firefox. Can you suggest me how to detect IE6 users and display a special page showing the upgrade details in ASP.NET MVC? Is handling this at server side s...

Inline-block columns adding up to 100% width

I've got three columns inside of a div that is the full page width. The two on either side are 25% width and the one in the center is 50% width. This layout is working fine except in IE6 where at certain page widths it bumps the right column to the next line. Is there a fix for this? Maybe an alternate way to layout a page like this? E...

How to prevent the contents of a div from beaking its parents dimensions in ie6

I've got a two column layout like this: <div> <div id='left'></div> <div id='right'></div> </div> When the contents of the left div are that of a flash object with dimensions that exceed the left column's width, the right column no longer floats to the right properly in ie6. It falls underneath the left div. All other browsers (of ...

need help fixing css for IE6 >_<

I am working on the following page: www.darksnippets.com It looks good on FF and chrome but on IE6 the width looks terrible for the home page and other pages. for example: http://www.darksnippets.com/?page_id=62 on IE6 is extra wide. I cant seem to fix this issue. I know the site is using tables rather than div's but I've grandfather...

Feeding HTML to IE6 Only

I need to display different HTML if the browser is IE6/IE7. I know conditional comments work fine if we're just talking about styling information but in this particular case it's the actual markup. I will have an unordered list of images which will be png-24. They will have rounded corners (hence the need for the transparency provided b...