internet-explorer-6

CSS overlaps help

Hey http://69.65.3.168/~doubleop/pro.sperity/ The content and footer are both in a div (#left) and the sidebar is in (#right) #left{ width:685px; float:left; overflow:visible; } #right{ width:215px; float:left; margin-top:20px; } The footer is 900px; wide, which is why i set #left to overflow:visible, so you could see it. I am doin...

DIV positioning problem in IE6

Once again, things work normally EXCEPT in IE6. Please look at http://bronautomotive.com/ to see my frustration... the div right underneath the middle navbar drops down. I wonder if I need an IE6 specific hack in my css? ...

Javascript to close IE6, IE7, IE8 and Firefox without confirmation box?

Suppose I want to have a link or a button that when user click it, the browser will close without any confirmation dialog box. It will need to work on Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 and Firefox. ...

Jquery not working in ie6

Hi all, I'm quite stuck on this It's working fine in firefox, chrome, safari, ie8(almost). But in ie6: no mouse interactions work; added like - $("#watch_but_link").mouseup and $("#watch_but_link").mouseover some css functions don't work; added like - $("#listen_tab").css("background-position","0px 0px"); There is a whole load of x...

CSS problems: with custom ul,li dropdown navigation in ie, especially with the ie6 overflow:visible bug

The essence of the ie6 bug (dropdown entries must be truncated via overflow hidden to prevent ie from incorrectly expanding instead of acting as overflow:visible) can be seen in it's current (hacky) form in the screenshot below, and at the site http://zd-cms.com Wrong (ie6): Right (FF, IE8, Chrome): The menu entry should show: C...

CSS margin-transference bug (ie6 + ie7), would like input

I am almost done with my project, but have one final looming problem that I'd like some advice on. Info on the CSS "margin transference bug" relating to ie6 and ie7 can be found here and here. So I have all of these heading tags with margin-bottom: 24px. They sit above any number of left-floated divs, depending on the page. Each of the...

How can I get this menu to behave in IE6?

I have a site whose menu is functioning incorrectly in IE6, and only IE6. A live preview of the site can be seen here. The HTML & CSS are too long to post here but please view the source and the CSS. I have implemented conditional comments and the IE6 Update jQuery plugin. Neither work. ...

What makes IE6 not accept text in input boxes?

I have 2 input boxes that are not disabled. When either gets focus no cursor is displayed and any text that you type in is not displayed. There are several events attached to these elements, but there are no js errors. Expected behavior occurs in IE7, IE8, FF2, FF3, Chrome, and Safari. EDIT: Here is a code example of the events being at...

How to insert javascript using innerHTML (ie6 is giving me a unknown runtime error)

var head =document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0]; newScript = document.createElement('script'); newScript.type = 'text/javascript'; newScript.innerHTML = '$(window).load(function(){ someFooo(); }); '; head.appendChild(newScript); This is causing an Unknown Runtime Error in IE6. Any other way...

Javascript Execution Order in IE6

Aren't Javascript blocks supposed to execute in the order that they are placed on the page? IE6 doesn't seem to follow that rule in some situations. My page basically looks like this: <html> <head> <title>Widget Sandbox</title> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://domain2.com/script.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; </head> <body> ...

IE6 problem with dynamically adjusting the height of a div

All, Here's what I'm trying to accomplish. I have a Flash SWF that's embedded in a DIV. Depending on the user's interactions with that SWF, I'd like to dynamically adjust the height of the SWF. The SWF itself is 1200 pixels tall. By default, the DIV is 690 pixels tall, so the lower part of the SWF is clipped (which is the behavior I w...

Do we use doctype only to render webpages in standard mode with IE6 ?

Do we use doctype only to render webpages in standard mode with IE6 ? or does doctype do something more than that? ...

IE6 Joomla Poll problem after converting template to 1.5x

Hi! Recently i converted Joomla 1.0x template to 1.5x for a client of mine. Almost everything went smoothly, i migrated the content, menus etc and the website is up & running atm. I didn't notice at start that my Poll window is sort of broken. Polls are displaying correctly in every browser except in IE6 (i know, one more crappy IE6 pro...

Suckerfish navigation hiding behind content in IE7/IE6

I've built a suckerfish navigation. It seems to work fine in modern browser but it's hiding behind the content when viewed in ie7 and ie6. another issue i notice across all browser is the hover state i've applied to the parent link item disappears when my mouse moves down to the secondary nav, is there a way to keep the active state on ...

JQuery Cycle plugin - IE Transparency issue, who can help?

Hi, I am using the JQuery Cycle plugin to cycle threw a bunch of DIV's, each DIV represents a weddings dress, with a pic, description and accessories etc. All works fine in FF and Chrome, but in IE 6/7 there is a bug with the transparent .pngs. Each time the cycle switches DIV's a strange black fuzzy border is added to the pngs, this i...

IE6 border-bottom: 0 & padding CSS issue.

Hi, I just encountered a IE6 bug that I don't seem to identify over the net. Basically this is when the behavior is triggered: a block element has border, on all sides except bottom, and top/bottom padding. and inside it there's another block element. My entire code is to big to fit in here, but I narrowed it down to this simple examp...

IE6 image scaling with bicubic filter

I have a project where I have to resize some images in the actual browser side. IE8, FF3 et al all apply a filter to smooth the resizing of the image, so in these browsers everything looks good. In IE7 I have applied the following fix which works great: -ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic; In IE6 however I can only find references to t...

Drop down menu in IE 6 - weird height issues, expands the 1st level ul

Hi all, Am having a ghastly looking problem with IE 6, though I think I've just made some errors with margins and padding not adding up somewhere. I know that IE needs a width set for drop down menus, but I can't get a handle on what to edit on this. Here is an image of what is going on: http://www.moreheadplanetarium.org/redesign/tro...

IE 6 and IE 7 on same computer for debugging

I recently started a new job and my Lead is out sick. He assigned me a bug in our code that only affects IE6. The dev. box I'm running is Windows Server 2K3 with IE 7 though. How can I open the web page and debug it from my computer in IE 6? ...

IE6 javascript image swapping

I am having a problem with IE6 image swapping using jQuery (but assumedly any old javascript will trigger this issue) When setting $().attr('src','image.png') where the current image for the selector is drastically different in dimensions to the image.png image, IE6 squeezes the new image into the frame of the old image without resizing...