internet-explorer-6

Is there a good repository of IE 6 considerations?

I've been lucky to develop websites for the past 3 years for companies that don't need to support IE 6 in any way. I've just accepted a development job with a company that works exclusively with IE 6 customers in the financial field. These people may be hemmed in by corporate IT departments or haven't upgraded, or whatever the reason i...

CSS content overflow out of box IE <6

I have a div that holds some text, it has a background with a border, but for some reason the box is not expanding to the text, even with overflow: auto; here is my script for the box as well as a picture: .box { background: #ffdcba; border: 1px solid #f78d25; display: block; clear: both; margin: 4px 0px; padding-left: 15px; overflow: a...

jQuery clean slideToggle for many elements at once

I am using a slideToggle technique to show and hide 100+ DIVs full of information in my application. I have "Show All" and "Hide All" buttons and I'd like for them to have the slideToggle animation as well (instead of just showing and hiding all). However on IE6, the slideToggle runs really slow when being applied to each element. Does ...

How do I make a jQuery dropdown checklist hide until it's built properly in IE6?

I'm using the jQuery dropdown checklist plug-in. When the it gets wired up to a multi-select box, you can see the multi-select render for an instant then the correct looking dropdown shows up. It's noticeable on page load but it's especially ugly on partial postbacks when it flashes the larger multi-select for an instant. I was thin...

jquery click function only works on first click in ie6

I have a 'feature panel' consisting of a list of services and an image representing each service. Clicking on a h2 tag in the list removes the 'on' and 'noborder' class from all the li elements and should then apply those classes to the li element in which the h2 was clicked. This works perfectly well in all browsers except ie6. In ie6 ...

Rounded corners container IE6

Hello, I have the following HTML which I'm using to create a rounded container using a left image, a right image, a gradient for the background of the container itself, and a bottom image which in practice is normally a "shadow" I have the following html, it has inline styles defined because it is being generated from a .NET control but...

IE6 Memory Leak on Refresh?

Hello all, I reload a page every few seconds to get an update from the server, this page can be open and this can happen forever - I am guessing, espcially since this browser is on a remote server which isn't turned off. I do this: setTimeout(function () { location.href = location.href; // forces a reload from the server }...

Embed YouTube video with jQuery in IE6 without SWFObject

Here's my code. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; <title></title> <script> $(document).ready(function(){ $("#video").html('<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HPPj6viIBmU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&g...

Height issue with IE6

I am not sure what is going on here but for some reason the top portion of my footer is getting twice the necessary height when rendered in IE6. I have posted an example at https://www.msu.edu/~grossm51/sample/test.html . Any insight would be a huge help. Thanks in advance, Ben ...

How to display PDF attachment in IE6

I have an ASP.net application which returns a binary PDF file (stored from the database, which was previously uploaded) to the client. The code I have works fine for all browsers, except for internet explorer 6 (story of my life!). In IE6, when a user clicks open, Adobe reports the error: "There was an error opening this document. The...

What's the preferred solution to fixing non-clickable content after applying an IE6 filter for pngs?

<div id="calendar"> <p>Text</p> <div class="section">blah</div> </div> I'm applying the PNG to #calendar, in IE6 I use filter but it makes the content not clickable - I believe the way around this was to force everything inside to be positioned ( eg position:relative ) and have a z-index + hasLayout but sometimes it doesn't work. ...

problem formatting height <DD> for IE6

Hello, I'm trying to format DL list: http://design.vitalbmx.com/new_html/index.html (6 items starting with "Troy Merkle on Giant") Looks good in Firefox, Chrome, IE7-8. In IE6 DD height is always larger (107px, while it must be 78px). I tried adding smaller height in style, removing all margins / padding etc and nothing seems to help...

IE 6 OR IE Tester -

Hi, took me a long time to figure this out and was wondering if it is IE 6, IE TESTER or something i have done. im creating a session to store quotes, which i am using md5($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) The problem being when i tested in IE 6 in the IE tester application, results are being inserted but the quote...

Problem in IE6 with fixed position and multi-select boxes when scrolling

Hi, I am using the common css-workaround to achieve a fixed position of an element in IE6 <style type="text/css" > .fixedPos { position:fixed; } </style> <!-- IE specific code: --> <!--[if lte IE 7]> <style type="text/css"> .fixedPos { position:absolute; top:expression(eval(document.compatMode && document.compatMode=='CSS1...

ie6 weird h3 /div behavior - no right margin bug (?) in ff

Help, please. The code - just a styled pre and a styled div (using float and clear) : <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt; <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>Ie bug</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- pre { ba...

How many IE6 users are real users?

I'm supporting an existing website and IE6 suppport seems to come up given the amount of rich AJAX and other technology sprinkled into the solution. IE6 is definitely going the way of the dinosaur, however the people who operate the site insist that 20% of Internet users are still rolling with IE6. My question is this: how many of th...

IE6 and jQuery document.ready - I can't access DOM elements

I'll try to keep this brief but this is infuriating the hell out of me. :) I've got a javascript file that pre-processes json data into a bunch of drop down lists. It all works wonderfully except in IE6 (go on snigger, it's only to be expected huh?). Unfortunately it's for a web app that has about 60% IE6 users so it HAS to work. In IE...

Fake the src of an iframe for printing to avoid "about:blank"

I'm creating a hidden iframe specifically to be used for printing in IE6. Here's a basic outline of the code with some HTML population cut out: $('body').append('<iframe id="printIFrame"></iframe>'); $("iframe#printIFrame").attr('style','position:absolute;width:0px;height:0px;left:-500px;top:-500px;'); $("iframe#printIFrame").load(fu...

IE6 fix for site

Here is the url to the site in question: http://www.katiesamsonlaxfest.com/index.html The site looks fine in all the browsers except IE6 and below. I would like if possible to find an easy css fix because as you can see the content is not contained within the divs. ...

Bug DD_belatedPNG script use with jquery UI in IE6

I'm using the script DD_belatedPNG so that my transparent PNG work in IE6. It work fine until now. I insert a tab slider with jquery UI and it's seem that the script DD_belatedPNG don't apply on the images in the slider. It work everywhere else on the page but not in the slider and I don't have a clue why. Can someone help me please....