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What is the best way to save a PNG image with alpha transparency for IE6?

I am trying to save a 1 or 8-bit PNG image that looks nice in IE6. Do you have any suggestions? I have used Fireworks before, and that works pretty well, but I'm looking for other options. Thanks! ...

How can you open 2 windows even when ie6 popup blocker is enabled

It seems like when trying to open 2 windows from a succession of windows.open calls, it only allows the first window to open and deletes the reference to the second window. I know this probably sounds a little kludgy, but we do need to have that second popup. Any ideas? Unfortunately we are addressing a user-case, where ie6 on the user...

dojo.marginBox returns wrong height in IE6

Hi, I've been trying to get the height of a DIV using "dojo.marginBox", but I keep getting the wrong height in IE6. Here's part of my code: <div id="outerDiv"> <div id="hiderDiv" class="hider"></div> <div id="contentDiv1"></div> <div id="contentDiv2"></div> <div id="contentDiv3"></div> </div> The CSS for the "hiderDiv" looks...

Cufon text shadow issue IE6

I am using the cufon method of dynamic text replacement to use a custom font on a project i am helping to edit atm, however i get a strange problem when i try and view the site in ie6. The text has a black doubled/outlined look. Has anyone ever had this issue before? ...

Looking for IE6 .PNG Transparency Fix for both img tag and background images...

Not sure if this exists as I have been googling all around and can't find anything great. Thought I would post this question prior to redesigning the page I am working on. Is there anyway to fix the transparency problems with .png's in IE6 for both image tags and background images? Please tell me there is a magical javascript that jus...

jQuery: load refuses to get dynamic content in IE6

jQuery refuses to load my dynamic content in IE6. All in FireFox & Safari works fine. Only IE6 is being a pain. When I try the a html with <p>Hello World</p> that works. Properly. But when loading a PHP it doesn't work! As you can see it's doing multiple things. <script type="text/javascript"> // When the document is rea...

Block Zoom in IE 6

How can I block the zoom-function of the Internet Explorer 6? ...

CSS breaks in IE6

I hae the following CSS selector: .section h1, .section > div:first-child { background-color: #E5E5E5; border-bottom: solid 1px #CCCCCC; padding: 3px; text-align:left; font-weight:bold; } Now I know that the first-child and the > selectors do not work in IE6, but .section h1 does. My problem is that in IE6, the .section h1 does ...

IE6 "helpfully" appends suffix to downloaded file

A webapp I've been developing allows users to upload and download a type of file which is meant to be treated as an opaque blob. My app serves it up with a file extension not commonly used for any other purpose, as well as specifying that its MIME Content-Type is application/octet-stream. Internally, the file is a simple Zip archive co...

jCarousel, IE6 and Fixed Width

We are using jCarousel on our websites to display images. Simple enough. We have fairly flexible layouts so the carousels are not always the same width. FF, IE7+, Chrome, Safari etc work perfectly well taking up the space available. However IE6 ends up sending the jCarousel script into a loop and warns that a script is stopping the pag...

List of IE6 Upgrade / Denial Pages

As we transition away from IE6, I'm trying to find examples of other sites that stopped supporting IE6 and encourage their users to upgrade. ...

Browser detection versus capability detection for IE 6 select / z-index bug

I have a written a jquery plug-in which pops-up a div section on hover over an element, and I need to deal with the "select z-index" bug in IE6 (http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/01/17/514076.aspx). So, if running in IE6, my code needs to hide some select boxes on the page, when the pop-up div is visible. My question is: In trying t...

Dynamic CSS is not working in IE6 and IE7

I have created a page with 4 widgets each having a table with in it. User can click on the header of the widget to select it. On doing so, the widget will get a class "widgetSelected" and the selected column of table in it, will have a light blue color. If someother widget is selected, the "widgetSelected" class will get removed from thi...

Object doesn't support this property or method javascript error in IE6 only

I've searched the internet and this great stackoverflow.com site particularly, but cannot help myself. I am not very experienced programmer and a friend of mine asked me to fix the bug that is on IE6 only. It works on FF, IE7/8, Opera. Here is the PART of the code that gives error message on IE6: (function(d, n, r) { var ie, jscript, ...

Javascript Show and Hide Divs Reloads Complete Page in IE6

Hello, and thank you for taking a look at this question. We have developed a website which has a navigation control (Next and Previous buttons) written in Flash. These buttons use ExternalInterface to call a Javascript function in my webpage, e.g. ExternalInterface.call("showPage", pageNum); My HTML page contains a number of Divs which...

jquery: IE7 won't prepand a label to the corresponding inputs div-container

Hi! I want to make sure that the structur of my form is like that: <form> <div> <label> <input> </div> <form> I use jquery to catch the label from whereever it is and move it between <div> and <input>. This works fine in Firefox but IE has problems with that. How can I get it running with IE? Here's the line that ...

Scrollbar hidden in IE6 (css issue)

I'm not a CSS guru and I'm seeking your help. The following site www.jomea.com does not work properly in IE6. You cannot scroll down the page and it gets cut off. The web designer who worked on the html/css cannot fix and has been wasting my time for the past couple of months. style sheet for default page: ~/styles/jomea.css style s...

Popup Div Shifted Up in IE6

My CSS and page works in the latest FireFox, Safari, and Chrome, IE7, IE8, but not IE6. Please help! I have a popup that displays directly above the image (like I want) in every major browser except IE6. At my URL, http://www.cookware-reviews.net/juicers/black-and-decker/, I have a bunch of DIVs inside one another that make up my 'popu...

IE6: select inside jQuery tabs does not render dropdown list

I have a form inside jQuery tabs; I create tabs in a simple way: $("#tabs").tabs({selected: 1}); The selected index 1 is the tab where form is placed. The problem is, on remote computer with IE6 both selects only display a small blank line instead of list with options when dropdown arrow is clicked: The options are there in page so...

How to show hidden message in IE6 also using jquery?

This site http://www.webstandards.org/ shows "Skip to content" or 3rd tab but this tab doesn't show in IE6, I already use jquery so i need jquery solution to show this tab in IE 6 also same like it works in IE 7 and firefox. I want to use same thing in my client site. ...