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IE6 list issue - First list on page ignores horizontal margins

Hi Folks, I am creating a store in Magento and have a weird issue with IE6 and the ordered lists on my page. For some reason, IE6 ignores the horizontal margin on my first list. Not the first element in the list but the whole list. I have multiple list on the page. Here is a link to the offending page: http://byerofma.nexcess.net/produ...

How to check font-size in IE6+

Hi All, I am wondering is there any way we can test the font size/color of a webpage in IE6+. I think it is not possible by checking the css class, as some other style may overwrite the styles of the class which has been assinged to that text. Actually I want to know the browser assigned font-size to the text of the page, as we can do ...

The move from IE6/XP to IE8/Win7 and its effect on ASP.NET applications

Hello, The company I work for is preparing for application testing in IE8. Previously we have been using IE6. Many of our web applications are written in .NET 1.0 and 1.1 with more recent apps written in 2.x and 3.x. I know IE8 has an IE7 compatibility mode and it says it has a quirks mode, but most of our apps were written for 6, whic...

Absolute positioning in IE6, using left: 0; and right: 0; simultaneously

Here is my website: http://dagwaging.110mb.com/ View it in any good browser, then in IE6. It dies in IE6. It seems that in IE6, one can't do this: div { position: absolute; left: 0px; right: 0px; } or this: div { position: absolute; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; } Absolute positions cannot be set for left and right or top and bottom at th...

IE6 is duplicating characters, can't figure out why. Suggestions?

Problem is located on http://www.preownedweddingdresses.com/ We have a dresses slider at the bottom, select tabs different dresses shown. Works fine everywhere else, but for some reason, in IE6, the letters "ls" (from the tab "Best Deals") are duplicating inside the content and causing rendering issues. I've yet to find anything that ...

Mootools not loading fast enough IE6

Very random and annoying problem with IE6. We keep our common JS files on a resources server so we only have to update them in one place. As well as our custom classes we also keep our build of mootools and more on the resources server and link to it in the head of our sites. This is fine in all the browsers accept IE6. In IE6 it see...

IE6 Jquery Namespace problem

Hi, The following code works in all browsers apart from IE6... var mylib = { selectStyle : { init : function() { $('#select-box1').jqTransform({imgPath:'jqtransformplugin/img/'}); } } } <script type="text/javascript"> mylib.selectStyle.init(); </script> The error states 'mylib' is unde...

ExtJS TabPanel content does not shrink in IE6

I'm using ExtJS 3.2 and have content inside of a tab panel, and the tab panel inside of a container in a Viewport. The actual TabPanel resizes correctly on the viewport size changes, but the content inside a panel in the TabPanel seems to be a fixed width and will not shrink when the window is resized.The strange thing is it grows if I ...

jQuery Accordion + Anchor Tag 'stuck as block' bug?

Sample page: http://jsbin.com/ohuze/2 This is a simple jQuery UI Accordion. Each accordion panel has an UL (an OL works the same) with this markup: <ol> <li><a href="">Lorep ipsum dolor lorem ipsum dolor lorem ipsum dolor</a>?</li> <li><a href="">Lorep ipsum dolor lorem ipsum dolor lorem ipsum dolor</a>?</li> </ol> I...

Unstyled web page in IE6. Not FOUC

I have a very interesting issue with one of the websites I created. It renders fine in Safari, Chrome, Opera, FF, IE7&8 but IE6 does not seem to recognize my stylesheet. I'm not using @import for loading, so it's not a case a FOUC. The website is using Wordpress but never had an issue like this before with WP. I might be missing out on...

CSS background image inconsistency in IE6 and IE7

I have a span that is generated through javascript, with its css class as follows: .class1{ width:25px; height:25px; background-image: url(pic.png); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position: center; cursor:pointer; margin-left:10px; } The problem is on, the html page, i can see the pointer -cursor, but not ...

ASP.Net IE6 disable button

Hi, I have the following code running as part of my OnClientclick attribute on my custom ASP.Net button.... function clickOnce(btnSubmit) { if ( typeof( Page_ClientValidate ) == 'function' ) { if ( ! Page_ClientValidate() ) { return false; } } btnSubmit.disabled = true; } There is a...

jQuery $.post & $.append & IE6

I'm having a weird problem with jQuery and IE6. Script works on IE7+ and with all other browsers I have tried it. I can't post the full script, but what it does is this: $.post("file.php",{'foo':'bar'},function(data){ $('#target').append(data) }) When I run the code in IE6, #target just shows ? and a white char with a hole in the mid...

Disappearing menus in IE6 and 7

Hi all, I'm using dropdownplain js from css tricks along with the jquery s3slider on the site www.gwynfryncottages.com, there's an issue with IE6 and IE7 where the menu disappears behind the slideshow on the homepage and the images on the cottages overview page. I've tried a few fixes involving z-index but, as IE already has problems th...

Right Hand Column Does Not Align Properly in IE6/7/8

Hi Guys, I'm new to this but here goes. I have been developing this website http://www.panelmaster.co.uk and i have managed to solve the majority of design problems but one! If you take a look at the site in IE the right column seems to drop down and is not aligned with the right and centre column. This problem only occurs in IE as up...

Faking Fixed Position in IE6

I have a site that utilizes a bottom fixed position masthead here: http://www.entheospartners.com/newsite/ This setup works great in all browsers except IE6, which doesn't support fixed positioning in the least, so here's what I've done: When an IE6 user comes to the page, I make the determination if scrolling is necessary using this b...

jQuery $(document).ready() failing in IE6 but only after clearing Temporary Internet Files

I'm experiencing problems with $(document).ready not getting executed in IE6, but only after clearing the Temporary Internet Files (so in fact the very first time this page is loaded). On refreshing the page or on later page loads, everything works fine. This is the current setup: Portal page with frames, this portal page also has a w...

open current page in new window including query string

First of all, I am a total dud at all things related to web developement, so please bear with me here. I suspect this question is laughable for the web guys, but unfortunately I can't figure this out. Here goes: I have an application, that does some processing, writes some result files and then displays the results in an embedded IE bro...

webBrowser1.Document.MouseOver in .net to get XPath to the object in IE6

I'm doing test automation with Selenium and have now ended up testing an old .NET 1.1 app that only runs in IE6 that is kind of semi-ajax. Most of the objects does not have any ID tags etc and this complicates things writing the scripts. Now I'm trying to make my own little selenium-recorder for IE6 and I have made a small C# .Net proje...

Does IE6 Really not Allow Me to set width/height from left/right/top/bottom???

Building a site super quick and having it work on all my Mac browsers, I thought I'd take a gander on a friends old dell laptop with Windows XP and IE6. Nothing looks remotely correct. It's because I used lots of left/right/top/bottom (constraint) declarations to size elements proportionally to their parent's size (I didn't use percen...