internet-explorer-6

Problem with IE 6 page loading.

I have a website which works fine in all browsers except in IE6. The pages content is inside a div loaded with a background image. The page layout gets very nasty and image does not load when the page is opened for first time, but when the same page is opened for the second time and any subsequent times, then it loads perfectly. This sce...

Page rendering time are not steady in IE6

I have to support IE6 and I calculate rendering time by creating a timestamp in javascript at the beginning of the page and doing the difference when document.ready is fired in jQuery. If I do 3 pages load, the rendering times in milliseconds can look like this : page 1 : 735, 2672, 734 page 2 : 3063, 1516, 3375 page 3 : 8281, 2531, 37...

jQuery overlay not working in IE6, Opera

Hi, I've been scratching my head for hours trying to figure this out. I have this page: http://173.203.72.190/default.aspx. On clicking 'Any Cuisine', a sort of overlay is supposed to open. It works fine in nearly all browsers except IE6 and Opera. In IE6 and Opera, the jQuery 'overlay' won't open. Anybody have any ideas why this mi...

Why is this site so slow in IE6 and crashes?

My site: http://newwebsite01.endurit.com/Dienstleistungen/Internet-Solutions.aspx ...Crashes in IE6! Statusbar always shows remaining items.... If you click anything while you see this message it crashes. If you do nothing and wait about 4minutes it loads the site. I just googled and found several solutions why IE6 could crashing and b...

jQuery UI datepicker performance

I have a textbox on my web page that is used to specify a date, so I'd like to use the jQuery DatePicker. However, most of my users are locked into using IE6 and the performance of the jQuery DatePicker is a little sluggish in this browser. Can anyone recommend an alternate JavaScript date picker, or any means of improving the display p...

How do I set font size to 0px in IE6?

I have an unordered list, I'm trying to hide the text in the list. I can do this 2 ways that i know of: font-color: transparent; font-size: 0px; I prefer the 0px method as its not selectable. This issue is neither way works in IE6. The first way just doesn't work in IE6 at all, the 2nd leave a 1PX high font. Is there a way to hide the...

jquery auto-complete causes IE6 to hang

In my application, upon a certain event, an ajax call is triggered. The response contains a autocomplete select box (the data for which is statically included), therefore the response contains the following two scripts: <script type="text/javascript" src="<%=PropertyConstants.STATIC_LOCATION%>scripts/stp/jquery.bgiframe.min.js"></script...

How to solve IE6 selectbox flicker problem

I am experiencing a strange IE6 problem. I have an ajax request which refreshes a part of my page. However after the DOM injection the select boxes are disappearing and after a fraction of a seccond they appear again. Is there any way to prevent this? or solve ? I am using jQuery for the ajax part. Thank you! ...

Large number of Google Map Markers and IE6?

I'm working on an application that generates a large number of Google Map markers (2000 - 7000) via JSON. I'm also using MarkerCluster. It works quick on Chrome and FF but IE6 takes few minutes and just crashes the first time I try to zoom in. I'm not doing any more than just adding the markers to a map using JQuery & GMap API. So I l...

Getting the date object to work in IE6 (w/ YYYY-MM-DD param)?

I just got IE6 sprung on me for a project that is going out into the wild soon, which means it's time to go back and comb through all of the CSS and JS. I've gotten hung up on the date object, however: $.validator.addMethod("dateRange", function() { var today = new Date(); var event_date_raw = $('#event_date').val(); var event_dat...

The admin panel of a website can not be signed in to with IE6 or IE7, what's wrong?

I am dealing with a website. I can log in to the admin panel with IE6, IE7, and Firefox. However, on the client's computer, he can log in to the admin panel with Firefox, but he can not log in to the admin panel with IE6 or IE7. My client needs to use IE6 or IE7 to log in to the admin panel. What's wrong? How to solve this problem? ...

Page not displaying in IE6

Hi I have a page that refuses to render in IE6. When I load the page I get a popup message saying 'This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to display the nonsecure items?' No matter what I click I get HTTP 404 response. However, when I go uncheck the option 'Show friendly HTTP error messages', the page displa...

Position absolute for rounded corners and problems in IE6

Im using position absolute to give the top left corner of a DIV a rounded corner. HTML: <div id="MyDiv"> Some content <div class="topLeft">&nbsp</div> </div> CSS: #MyDiv { position: relative; padding: 12px; background: #fff url('graident.png') repeat-x top left; } .topLeft { position: absolute; top: 0; right: 0; width: 10...

div ie6 and ie8

Hi all, I have the following code, which works well in IE6 but not IE8. In IE8, both the usercontrols are squashed up, but it works well in IE6. I tried inserting into the second div, which makes it work well in IE8 but not IE6. Anyone knows how to make the pages look the same? <div> <ucFilter:FilterUserControl ID="ucFi...

IE6 secure and nonsecure error - nothing in Fiddler/no iframes

Hi, I've got the issue of IE6 showing the "secure and nonsecure items" error on an SSL page. Looking into it though none of the usual causes seem to apply. There are no calls to http://, there are no iframes in the page, fiddler and httpfox both show only requests to https:// - what else can i check? In Firefox and IE there is nothing ...

Does somebody know a form select skinning plugin

I need a jQuery plugin for skinning the form select tag. Currently I'm using the Uniform plugin but it degrades on IE6. Any help is appreciated!!! ...

Are table cellspacing and cellpadding always 0 (EVEN IF EXPLICTILY SET) if in strict mode?

I have a page I'm converting from quirks mode to strict mode. I added this: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/DTD/strict.dtd"&gt; All of a sudden all my tables collapsed that use cellpadding and cellspacing. The page looks fine in IE7 but has collapsed in Firefox. Is this expected? By us...

Why are these styles not visible in IE6

Given the following markup <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML Strict//EN"><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; <head> <style type="text/css"> div.apartBox { padding:12px; background: #FFFFFF; border: solid 1px #6182A3; } .browser { backgr...

jQuery1.4.2 $.ajax crashes IE6/7

Hello there! I'm having a really hard time debugging one of our latest reported bugs. The problem occurs "randomly", not on every page load, sometimes I can "click" around for a minute or two before IE6/7 crashes. By crash I mean that the IE-window shuts down and I get the option to send the crash info to Microsoft. In FF, Chrome, Safa...

Printing in IE6 completely different to other A-grade browser printing

Hi again, Does anyone know of a best practice print document for printing a website in IE6? I have a specific page that needs to be printed and it comes out well in other browsers except IE6 where it is being chopped off by a huge amount on the right side of my page. Thanks ...