internet-explorer-6

Why does this remote script cause IE6 to hang?

Please take a look at the html listed below and let me know why IE6 freezes when trying to load the remote script (located at 'http://code.katzenbach.com/Default.aspx'). The script returns JSONP and executes the 'callbackFunction' listed in the header. When it runs correctly, you'll see a pop-up alert showing numbers 1-500. This works...

PHP Script crashes IE6

The code below crashes IE6 for some reason. Much as IE is god-awful, i have never seen this before. Does anyone have any ideas? <div id="edit"> <?php $a = $_POST['category']; if ($a == "") { $a = $_GET['category']; } $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM media WHERE related_page_id = $a && type= 'copy'"); ?> <table width="460px;"> ...

IE6 problem with postback in asp.net

Ok I gave up, I've been struggling with this problem the whole day. I would appreciate any kind of help I have a page that contains a user control that is just a personalized dropdown list . I assign to each item the attribute onClick=__doPostBack('actrl',0). when I click the page postback fine and I got the expected results. However ...

How much time and effort do you spend on IE6?

I've often read that corporations will save millions once Internet Explorer 6 is finally laid to rest, but reading quotes like that make me wonder just how much time people are spending on IE6 development. I'll be happy once IE6 goes, but I've found that if I write valid HTML and CSS, use a JavaScript framework, keep the transparent imag...

Change of class does not result in the new class's rules being applied in IE6??

I have a single image with 9 different states and the appropriate background-position rules set up as classes to show the different states. I can't use the :hover pseudo-selector because the background image being changed is not the same element that is being hovered over. I have defined the classes this way: #chooser_nav {width:580px; ...

Flash inside a scrolling div - IE6 bug

I have div containing a list of flash objects. The list is long so I've set the div height to 400 and overflow to auto. This works fine on FF but on IE6 only the first 5 flash objects that are visible work. The rest of the flash objects that are initially outside the viewable area are empty when I scroll down. The swfs are loaded ok be...

How can I view more than one version of IE on my computer?

Where I work we only have IE 7. I want to view IE 6 on my computer also. How can I view both on the same computer? I want more than just a screen shot. I want to view both versions of IE as I write code. ...

iframe shimming or ie6 (and below) select z-index bug

uhm im not sure if anyone has encountered this problem a brief description is on IE6 any <select> objects get displayed over any other item, even div's... meaning if you have a fancy javascript effect that displays a div that's supposed to be on top of everything (e.g: lightbox, multibox etc..) onclick of a certain element and that div ...

Icon Background on IE6

I'm developing a website (using asp.net by the way) and I'm having a problem with IE6. When I use some icons near links, using background-image and padding-left on the links, the icons display nice on FF and Chrome but in IE6 they take a kind of "gray" background, and sometimes the flash strangely. Any ideas? is there some CSS hack to ...

XSLT IE6 default processor

What is the default XSLT processor for IE6. Does it support EXSLT? Is there anyway to make it support it? ...

What do you wish you knew before you spent hours trying to fix a bug in IE6

Mine would have to be the float and margin bugs... If you float an element, and then specify a margin for it, it will double the margin. The solution to this is to add display: inline to the element. This will stop the double margin, and all other browsers will ignore it because only block level objects can be floated. ...

Cookies on IE6 Standalone on Windows server 2003?

I cant seem to get IE6 and IE7 running alongside each other on my Windows Server 2003 VPC. I have tried both: http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone and: http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE , and yes, I tried putting the Wininet.dll in my standalone path. The browser works, but cookies does not! Any help would be greatly appreciat...

Footer knocked out by 1px in IE6

Heres the link: DAMNIE6TOHELL As you can see if viewed in glorious 'IE6-o-color', the footer is shifting 1px over to the left. I'm struggling to find a fix for this, I've whittled it down to a bare minimum of HTML. Is it something to do with haslayout perhaps? Any help much appreciated. ...

IE6 Bullets on lists

My link is here: Example Page I'm using list-style-image: to give my horizontal lists ( very top and bottom ) seperators. I have a class of .first to remove the image from the first li in each list. Lo and behold in IE6, it doesn't work. What happens is that the bullet images are not being displayed, and also the bottom few pixels of ...

Blank page in IE6

A site I am working on that is built using PHP is sometimes showing a completely blank page. There are no error messages on the client or on the server. The same page may display sometimes but not others. All pages are working fine in IE7, Firefox 3, Safari and Opera. All pages are XHTML with this meta element: <meta http-equiv="Content...

Sharepoint selectors in Central Administration don't work in IE 6 on the server VM (MOSS 2007)

Sharepoint Central Administration site uses the selector control I'm talking about a lot (for selecting site collections and web applications primarily) I have MOSS 2007 installed on a VM. When I open Central Administration from outside the VM from my desktop everything works fine. But when I open it from IE 6 installed on the VM the ...

Transparent PNG menu item backgrounds in IE6 with rollovers

Hi I have been trying to do this for what feels like all my life I have a list menu with block display links, each link has a sliding doors png background image. I have used this javascript (http://www.ideashower.com/our_solutions/png-hover/) to implement the alphaimageloader fix for ie6 using a transparent gif. When I test it for the ...

List Items turned into float:left blocks look strange in IE6

I have a UL that looks like this: <ul class="popular-pages"> <li><a href="region/us/california/">California</a></li> <li><a href="region/us/michigan/">Michigan</a></li> <li><a href="region/us/missouri/">Missouri</a></li> <li><a href="region/us/new-york/">New York</a></li> <li><a href="region/us/oregon/">Oregon</a></l...

Best approach for fixing CSS issues to work with IE 7

Recently, I started maintaining a web application which unfortunately works only with IE 6. Most of the issues are related to CSS. Is there any tool which can help me standardize the CSS classes to work with both IE 6 and IE 7? I understand I have to go through standards but I need something to start with quickly. Firebug can help me t...

Background of empty element used by following element in IE

In IE6 the paragraph following the empty paragraph is displayed with the background color of the empty paragraph, which I'm guessing is wrong! It works correctly in Firefox, but I haven't checked IE7. Is there a CSS solution to this problem, or do I have to remove the empty element? (I would rather not have to remove empty elements, a...