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IE6 not changing attributes (id and name) with jQuery attr call - any suggestions?

Suggestions other that dumping IE6 that is... I can't control that :) Quick synopsis of what I am trying to do: I have a form with select elements. When the user selects a specific option in the select (id type2 in the code below), I display a div structure that contains a new select. I want the new div structure and its children to be ...

IE7 and IE6 are giving trouble with navigation using an unordered list (extra spacing etc.)

Hey guys! I feel like I have gotten a good grasp on IE6 and 7 recently, but today I was working on a site and I just seem unable to fix this problem. http://arboroaks.bythepixel.com/tyrone/ Check it out in Firefox and Chrome and IE8. All looks good! But then, go into IE7 and some extra padding gets added, as well as the links have...

Why isn't my IE6 Conditional stylesheet not working?

This is driving me nuts. I'm trying to use a conditional IE6 stylesheet. I posted this test page here. Here is the code I placed in my head tags: <!--[if IE 6]> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie6.css" /> <![endif]--> The ie6.css should set the body background to red when viewed in IE6. What's wrong here? I'm sure it...

jQuery ajax problem with IE6

Hi my problem is a bit wired: my $.ajax success handler looks like: function(data){ alert(data); } Pretty simple, yeah? The problem is that data IS ALWAYS 3 character long - no matter what was sent by the server! The characters: 31 65535 8 (using charCodeAt()). In other browsers (even in IE 8) all works fine. I've looke...

IE6 version using ieframe.dll

I have a windows application and it is compatible with IE6 only. The application doesnt work with IE7 and IE8. Is it possible to ship the ieframe.dll for IE6 along with my installer and make the references from my application to this ieframe.dll instead of the one in system32 folder? So, when I invoke IE through my application, IE6 shou...

Google Toolbar prevents open a new window

Google toolbar is creating a serious problem for me in IE 6 when i try to open a window using window.open or if i set target="_blank" for anchor tag. It treats the window as pop up and dispaly pop up is blocked which i really don't want to dsiplay to my user. This problem only occurs if there is a extra code getting executed before windo...

IE6 and IE7 CSS help

Hi there, working on a site for a client (demo page here, still under construction: http://www.wmaxwell.com/newsite.html ). The 4 tabs line up fine in FF 3.6, IE8 and Chrome, but when I checked it out (using Virtual PC) with IE6 and IE7, the tabs are all crooked. Can anyone using IE6 or IE7 confirm this for me, and can anyone give me so...

IE6 float and height

Hi i have 2 divs that floats and IE6 fails on height (its not set from css). If i have letters as g,p,j its cut off the end of these letters. Here is the code <div class="left"> <!-- this div float left --> <span style="color:#666;">Legend : </span> <!-- Here the letter g is cut --> <a title="" class="button" href="#">Cho...

IE6 is rendering a period.. totally randomly. This period does not show in any other browsers. HELP!

I just previewed my page in IE6 and for some reason it is rendering a period for absolutely not reason. I looked in my html to make sure I didnt add an extra period on accident or something and was unable to find ANYthing. http://cypresslakesfla.com/models-new.php Take a look, make sure you have IE6 tester and you will see. Anyone se...

How to get IE6 to recognize inserted DOM elements via jQuery insertAfter()

I've got a jquery ajax function that polls the database server to see if there are new records. If so, it inserts the new records (with unique IDs) at the top of the record list using the following: $(new_records).insertAfter('#div_at_top_of_page'); This works fine, even in IE6. However, each inserted record has a secondary ajax fun...

Background repeat problems and moving divs in IE6

Hi, I don't have any code to show as it is on a intranet system. However I have noticed a couple of weird things when looking at it in IE6. This isn't the usual box model problem or IE6 rendering things differently. One thing that I noticed is on a div where I have a gradient background with repeat-x attribute. When the page loads in I...

Position: absolute not respecting parent element in IE6

I have a page with a div in it. The div contains an image, is 700px wide and 300px tall. It is set to position: relative. To show some text to the bottom of the DIV, I put a span into it and give it position: absolute; bottom: 8px This works fine in all browsers, except IE6. IE6 puts the text to the very bottom of the page. It is as ...

Problem with control.style.display='none'; in IE6 only...

Here's a switch. I used to have problems getting display:none to work in Firefox. Now it's IE6 that's driving me insane. I am modifying a website for a friend's company, who unfortunately is still running the lion's share of machines on IE6. I have a web form (ASP generated, but that's not where my issue lies) that stores contact inform...

Anyone know a good Javascript Prompt for the User to upgrade their browser...

I am trying to find a good way to notify visitors to our site to upgrade from IE6 to get full functionality. I see lots of this in use. Anyone know a good source for it? ...

IE6 - CSS - elements not floating corectly

Hey, I've been trying to code a menu, without making the icons fixed width (with just padding-left/right) and it works fine in every browser, except IE6. I checked other websites and they do it the same way as I do, but it works well for them. (It looks like IE6 is ignoring the float). Do you know what should I do to make it work? And ...

Make container overflow its parent without making the parent bigger in IE 6?

I used the three column layout in A List Apart's "In Search of The Holy Grail" article for a store I'm working on that uses Magento. Inside the middle column, at the top, there's a container that I would like to overflow so it extends outside the middle column and goes over the top of the right column. Like below. _____________________...

Form with target="_blank" will produce empty POST data in IE6

I have an iframe containing a form. I want the form to point to a new window when the user submits it. Basically, the following code should do the trick: <?php var_dump($_POST); ?> <form method="post" action="test_post_to_blank.php" target="_blank"> <input type="text" name="test" value="test" /> <input type="submit" /> </form> The pro...

Why margin:2.5px does not work? How to solve this problem

Why margin:2.5px does not work? at one situation in my code i want to give margin:2.5px in IE6 conditional CSS to solve IE double margin and my default css has margin:5px but in IE6 css margin:2.5px and margin:2px creating same margin. then how to get same margin on both browser? This is code of default screen CSS #newsHeadline LI ...

Internet Explorer 6 Problem

I'm having problem with IE 6 (what a surprise : D) On the following site (http://balatonnet.com/cats/lstSubCat/13) in the content I cannot click on the first few links but after a few items the links are working fine. I couldn't figure out the problem, has anybody seen something like this before? Thanks The HTML code is: <div id="co...

Windows 2000, IE6, applet attaches to wrong frame.

I have an applet which communicates with the browser via javascript. I load the applet, and some javascript, in an iframe, and in Windows 2000 with IE6, I have determined that the messages the applet propagates hit the parent frame, rather than the iframe. Is there a better solution to fix this than include windows2k.hacks.js, with prox...