internet-explorer-6

Has anyone else seen this IE6.0 Display problem?

Has anyone seen this type of IE display problem? Note that it is doing some sort of word-wrap/duplication when it renders. The code for the brown box and the text that should be in it is: <div class='span-23'> <div class='span-7'> <div class='info_box' style='height: 30px; padding-top: 10px'> <div class='span-4'><b>Vehicle Ful...

css li menu dynamic line widths in IE6

I've got a css menu like this: <ul> <li><a>Item1</a></li> <li><a>Item Two</a></li> <li><a>Item C</a></li> <li><a>A Rather Long Menu Item Down Here</a></li> </ul> I want to create this: |-----------------------------------| | Item1 | |-----------------------------------| | Item Two ...

How to find slow-down in Javascript in IE6

Something's slowing down my Javascript code in IE6 to where there's a noticeable lag on hover. It's fine in FF, so using firebug isn't that helpful. What tools are out there to help debug this in IE? ...

Help me work around these two IE6 layout bugs

My webpage is suffering from two IE6 rendering bugs. Each of them have workarounds, but unfortunately said workarounds are incompatible with each other. Here's a minimized test case. The behavior in Firefox/Safari is the desired/correct one. IE7 is unknown, since I don't have access to it right now. First bug: #content has overflow: au...

How to center a <div> element in IE6

Hey, trying to implement a dialog-box style behaviour using a separate div section with all the stuff inside it. When the "dialog box" needs to be shown, it has to display at the center of the WINDOW, not in the center of the page, that is, REGARDLESS of the scroling position. Furthermore, the correct solution will not move the "dialog...

Problem with Pseudoclass and text-decoration:underline in IE6

I am using a piece of html something like the following:- <a class="somePseudoClass" title="Blablabla">Something</a> and I have the following css in an imported file. a.somePseudoClass:hover {color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;} This works perfectly in Firefox 2.0 but in IE6 the underline fails to show. Does anyone know o...

How do I make a DetailsView CheckBoxField visible in edit mode in IE6?

<%-- In IE6, in edit mode, the checkbox isn't visible --%> <asp:DetailsView ID="MyDetailsView" runat="server" Height="50px" Width="100%" AutoGenerateRows="False" SkinID="detailsViewSkin" DataKeyNames="SerialNumber" DataSourceID="DetailsObjectDataSource"> <asp:CheckBoxField DataField="Active" HeaderText="Active" SortExp...

IE6 Navigation hovers

I'm using the following code to have a non-JS navigation: <ol id="navigation"> <li id="home"><a href="#"><img src="./images/nav/home-hover.png" alt="Home" /></li> ... </ol> And the CSS: #navigation a { display: block; height: 25px; } #navigation a img { display: none; } #navigation a:hover img { display: blo...

shdocvw Web Browser control zooming

I am using the web browser control from shdocvw.dll to build an html and image viewer that I'm automatically controlling. Some of the images I'm loading are pretty large in resolution so I'd like to be able to automatically zoom the control out to the extent of the content, and would like to support back to IE6. Is this possible? ...

IE6 can't find Object element with getElementById()?

I'm trying to get an object element from my webpage using getElementById (ultimately so I can replace it with a dynamically created object element) but it is returning null in IE6. In the following code, the byId() function returns null in IE but an [object HTMLObjectElement] in Firefox 3 and the lengthOfByTagName() function returns 0 i...

IE6 invisible text in 7 lines HTML, is there a fix?

It took me forever to reduce the problem to this. I cannot express the amount of frustration I'm experiencing, and if I did, it would not be suitable for any website. Ever. Here is the HTML code that is causing me epic pain: <div style="padding: 5px; background: #EEE"> This text is invisible. Remove either padding or background to s...

IE6 sometimes not loading stylesheet

Hi We are having a problem where IE6 (the only browser we have noticed this happening on) seems to be caching an empty version of our main stylesheet. The only way to resolve the problem is to request the stylesheet directly by typing the its url directly into the browser, and then when you refresh the page, it will appear with the sty...

IE6 extra padding on bottom

I have a div tag styled through CSS. I set the padding to 10px (padding:10px), it works just as I wanted in Firefox and IE7, but in IE6 it adds additional padding at the bottom (about 2-3px I think). Anyone has idea about what's happening here? [update] I just noticed this, the div tag I'm talking about has a background-image. When I ...

Using the ">" selector with IE6

I have written some CSS which targets elements using the parent > child selector. Specifically for tables so I can apply certain styles to the headers and footers like this table > thead > tr > th ... table > tbody > tr > td ... //there are other uses in the css as well This works great, except in IE6. What is my best approach for unf...

Server certificate in IE6

We have an e-commerce site that uses certificates from Thawte, we had our certficate renewed in October. If you access https-pages from IE6 you get a warning that the certificate has expired, if you look at the expiration date it's actually the old certificate. Now, this doesn't happen at all when accessing the page from IE7. This happe...

How to (kindly) ask your users to upgrade from IE6?

It's no secret at all that IE6 has been a major roadblock to the advancement of the web over the last few years. I couldn't count the number of hours I've spent bashing my head against a wall trying to fix or debug IE6 issues. The way I see it, there are two types of IE6 user. a) the poor corporate schmoe whose IT department doesn't wan...

IE6/IE7 css border on select element

Does anyone have a solution for styling the borders of "select" elements in Internet Explorer using CSS? ...

One page of entire site has invisible elements untill resized or scrolled in IE

One of my pages of my site is behaving really weird in IE6. One element is ignoring its background color and border. The other element is invisible (textcolor same as foreground color?) The elements are not always showing this behaviour, but about 50% of the loads without any pattern. When the browser window is resized or scrolled, or t...

Can't make div look the same in IE6 and IE7/FF

Hi, hope you can help me with this one. I have a Div with five float divs inside: var div=document.createElement("div"); div.className="cssDivNino"; var divFolio=document.createElement("div"); divFolio.className="cssFolio"; div.appendChild(divFolio); var divCurp=document.createElement("div"); divCurp.className="cssCurp"; div.appendCh...

javascript options selected IE6 vs. FF2

the following js works fine in FF2 but in IE6 the dropdown always selects one option to early, IE -> testix2 vs. FF2 -> testix3 If we add an alertBox somewhere in the script, it also works fine in IE6. But how to solve this without an alertBox? tia <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> <!-- function Entry(value, name, s...