internet-explorer-6

IE6 CSS Hover issues with menu

Hi folks, I have a CSS hover menu which works in all browsers except... surprise -- IE6! #menu_right ul li:hover ul { visibility: visible; } This ul is hidden initially, obviously. When I hover over its parent li, it should show up... but it doesn't. To try to pinpoint the problem, I've tried making the ul initially visible and had...

If I serve /favicon.ico as image/vnd.microsoft.icon, instead of image/x-icon, will it break on any browsers?

If I configure Apache to serve /favicon.ico as MIME type image/vnd.microsoft.icon, instead of image/x-icon, will it break on any browsers? Wikipedia's favicon article indicates that image/vnd.microsoft.icon is the "correct" mime type, but that doesn't help if it means some users won't see it. I need to support IE6+, as well as modern b...

menu items 100% in IE6, help

Hi I'm having IE6 issues (surprise surprise). I can't work out why the menu items are all 100% wide: http://www.baytobush.com.au/dev Can anyone shed light on this? must be something is my css... ...

IE 6 Bug: float: none -> borders disappear

Hi, i have a class let's call it cell, .cms-block .cell{ width:520px; float:left;} .cms-block.wide .cell{width: auto; float:none} in IE 6, the child elements of .cms-block.wide .cell loose their borders/background colors. if I take away the float:none; the borders are there. but... the cell is floating left. argh. I looked around an...

jQuery based min/max width fix for IE6

Anyone know of a decent, reliable, jQuery based min/max width fix for IE6 ...

anchors and regular links - styling

In a webpage I'm building I use anchors for easy navigating. The styling of these anchors in IE6 gives me some troubles. <div class="text"> <h3><a class="anchor" name="custom_name">Title</a></h3> Lorem ipsum <a href="otherpage.aspx">dolor</a> sit amet. </div> With this CSS: .text { color: #000; } .text a[href] { co...

Known issues with gzip and IE6

I read that some versions of IE6 have known issues with gzip compression, but I have found little explanation as to what these issues are. What are the known issues with gzip compression and IE6? ...

ie6 - gd and php image outputting

Hi guys, i'm trying to show image with grayscale-filter. Here is my code: $images = glob('gallery/*small*'); shuffle($images); array_splice($images, 3); $imgHandles = array(); $imgBuffered = array(); for( $i = 0; $i < 3; $i++) { $imgHandles[$i] = imagecreatefromstring( file_get_contents($images[$i]) ); imagefilter( $imgHandles...

IE6/IE7 and transparent background bugs - What is a practical fix for all of them?

I am getting a number of strange rendering issues in IE6/IE7 when there are transparent backgrounds applied to the elements involved. They have included but are not limited to: When scrolling back up a page a background image appears moved as if padding is applied. When hovering over a link the background image applied to its containi...

Blur a select after change in Internet Explorer 6

Simple question really. This works in all but IE6: <html> <body> </body> <select id="test" onchange="blur()"> <option name="one">One</option> <option name="two">Two</option> <option name="three">Three</option> </select> </html> Is there anyway to get this working in IE6? JavaScript and JQuery hacks allowed. Any ideas, remarks or tip...

IE6: Images are stretched for a split second with height:auto

I have height:auto set, but I'm noticing that small thumbnail images are being stretched vertically in Internet Explorer 6 for a split second, then conforming to their correct height. One thing to note, in the HTML, the image tag looks like this: <img src="http://location" width="96" /> Will setting the height attribute in the HTML f...

IE6 showing wrong background image

Hi, Im using the YUI tabs components and customised each tab to show a unique icon and then show a variation of the icon when the tab is selected. As we know YUI adds 'selected' class to the selected tab and I manually added 'nav-xxx' where xxx is the tab name to each tab. Im using the following css: .nav-directory { background:...

IE6 JQuery Troubleshooting tips requested

I'm fairly new to JQuery, having taken over this product, and I'm not sure the best questions to ask in troubleshooting this, so any help would be appreciated. The situation: We have web pages that use JQuery, which run on correctly in our environment on IE6, IE7, and Firefox. They silently die as well, so any tips on how to gather use...

PngFix + :hover

Anyone seen or used a good script, jQuery or native, that lets you do PNG fix on hover? ...

a:hover background replacement on a empty a tag not working

Hi, Im using hyperlinks as a image, well a background image so that I can do a image swap eaisly with a:hover. I have the following: <a class="cross" href='#'></a> And the following css a.cross { background:transparent url(/images/cross-grey.png) no-repeat scroll 0 0; float: right; border: none; width: 19px; heig...

IE6 and IE7 send HTTP/1.1 without hostname on redirect

we use Redirect-after-Post Pattern in our webapp. Sometimes very few error logs are shown in our apache log like this: [error] [...] client sent HTTP/1.1 request without hostname (see RFC2616 section 14.23): ... in my acces log they show up as [...] "GET /xyz/ HTTP/1.1" 400 226 "-" "-" 72 What happens here is: The application se...

Reading window.location after setting document.domain in IE(6)

Hello SO, I've got a situation a page on where a script on www.example.com/index.html opens home.example.com/foo.html in a popup window. When the user closes the popup, I want to notify the opener page by calling a Javascript function on it (which does a few things with the DOM). I use unbeforeunload like this: // In index.html on...

Loop through selected table rows with JavaScript

Hi, I have a table, containing a checkbox to select the whole row (or not). This selection is done through JavaScript (JQuery) by setting a class attribute on the row. function SelectRow(pRowID) { $("#"+pRowID).toggleClass("selected"); } Next step, I want to loop through all selected rows of the table (to extract data from it). A...

Dojo - problem sending form with IE6

I am getting a JavaScript error in IE6 when trying to send form data with xhrGet. Here is the code: var kw = { url: "Save.action", load: function(data){ }, error: function(data){ }, form: "editData" }; dojo.xhrGet(kw); It works fine in IE 8. I am using Dojo 1.3.2 and the error in the uncompressed dojo.js is a...

Silverlight GetElementById IE6

Hi, I have an odd error that you guys will hopefully be able to help me out with. I have this code in my silverlight app: private void MainGrid_SizeChanged(object sender, SizeChangedEventArgs e) { double actualHeight = this.MainGrid.ActualHeight; HtmlPage.Document.GetElementById("silverlightControlHost").SetStyleAttribute("height", s...