internet-explorer-6

How are programmers tackling ie6 bugs these days?

I have been using dean edwards ie7/8 script. Not sure if it's my implementation or not but sometimes I would experience ie6 issues that weren't quite fixed or required special handling which meant I would be back where I started, caring about ie6. So, I was wondering if ie7/8 is still the go or if some other practice/solution was better....

IE6 Bullet Point Alignment Problem

Hello, I am currently having some problems with <li> in IE6 essentially my code looks like this, <ul> <li>some filler text some filler text</li> <li>some filler text some filler text</li> <li>some filler text some filler text</li> </ul> The problem come when I view the page in IE 6 the bullets and the text do not line up as yo...

Add <option> in IE 6 unwards.

Hi, I've the code below written in JavaScript to add a new option to the select list from the opener window: function updateSelectList() { var field = opener.document.objectdata.ticketPersonId; if (true && opener && field) { var val = document.createElement('option'); var title = document.objectdata.titleId....

List of CSS features not supported by IE6

Hello, I just finished slicing and coding a very nice table-less css template for my website, all the time I was testing with IE7 and Chrome. Then I just had the brilliant idea of testing this template with IE6, I installed Windows XP on a Virtual PC and then I opened my website on IE6. It looks extremely bad! The format of my page lo...

IE6 bug. Div's height increases when a:hover is triggered

Hi, I have a page that there is a list of "tags", just like here in SO, and when the mouse is over it, it gets darker. It works great with Ie7, 8, FF, Chrome, Safari etc... but IE6 has a bug that when a:hover is triggered. The bug is that the div that those (ul li a) are contained, gets a height's increase. the css I have is: div.opt...

drop down menu needs to display over everything, but it is underneath a certain div.

I have a drop down menu and it works perfectly on everything except IE6 & IE7. Here it is in the Safari/Firefox browsers: http://tinyurl.com/at2cb4 Here is how it looks in IE6 & IE7: http://tinyurl.com/beop5l Here is the CSS for the div where it hides underneath for IE 6/7 #featured-programs-left img, #featured-programs-right img{ ...

IE6's back button and repost

My website is an asp.net-mvc(beta1) website, fully validates and works in all browsers (except obviously in IE6 for this matter). I can reproduce the error by doing the following: Make a POST request with some parameters From the results click one of the generated GET links Pressing the "BACK" button from the resulted page. Sometime...

CSS UL Menu in IE 6

I apologize for the headline, I don't really know a better way of putting it (let me know if you have a better way, I will change it). Please consider the following code: <html> <head> <title>IE 6 Menu Test</title> <style type="text/css"> .nMenu { border:1px solid black; } .nMenu ul { margin: 0; padding: 0; ...

Why would this web page cause IE6 to lock up?

I'm stumped. From what we can tell there is nothing wrong with this page and it renders fine everywhere else (IE7/IE8, FireFox, Opera, Safari, etc). The problem is that if it's loaded in IE6 on Windows XP SP3 it just locks up the browser and it has to be force-closed through task manager in most cases. A few of our test computers load...

IE6 performance with CSS expressions

We are developing a web application that will be sold to many clients. There is already one client (a bank) which has decided that it will buy the product once it is ready. Unfortunately due to some miscommunication it came out rather late that the only browser they use is IE6. The application was already started with the thought in mind...

How to style <input type="text"> in IE6 CSS?

Is there any elegant way of applying a certain style to all <input type="text"> elements under IE6? I can do it with some JavaScript, but I was wondering if there was a more elegant way of doing it. Note - I cannot apply a certain class to all textboxes by hand. And I'd like to avoid CSS expressions. ...

How to retrieve iframe top position in IE6 using JavaScript?

Does anyone know how to retrieve an iframe top position within a page for IE6 using JavaScript? The following code works for IE7: window.frames(0).screenTop but the same code in IE6 retrieves the wrong value (far too high). Any ideas? ...

Why is ContentEditable removing “ID” from div

I am having problems with getting a HTML editor working. We are using “contentEditable” to implement it, however when any paragraph formatting option is done without contents selected, IE removes the ID from one of the divs in the page. The problem repeats for me with the HTML, just save it to a file, then open it in IE enable jsc...

Open page in same browser window from winforms app

I have a .NET winforms program that includes a feature to launch a specific web page in the system's default browser window. It would be desirable for the page to be launched in the user's existing browser window, if one is open. The current means of launching the browser always creates a new window: Process p = new Process(); p.Sta...

IE6 layout issue - absolute positioning

The following HTML looks as required in Firefox 2 & 3 and IE7. The Left button is on the left, the Right button is on the right, and the text in the middle is...in the middle! However on IE6 the Left button is misaligned - it appears center-aligned. Can anyone suggest why?? <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN...

Internet Explorer 6 aborts page request when javascript executes

The scenario is this. A web page contains: some DIVs whose visibility can be toggled with a javascript (fired from an hyperlink) a Submit button, whose response takes about 5 seconds The hyperlink code is <a href="javascript:void null;" onclick="MyFunction()">foo</a> The User: Presses Submit. While he is waiting for the respons...

This page contains both secure and nonsecure items and iframes

IE 6.0 is giving me the message "This page contains both secure and nonsecure items" because I have iframes on my page (for the combo box bug). I have tried pointing to a few different things in the src but I can't seem to get rid of this message without putting in a blank html page, which I would like to avoid so there isn't a server ca...

What is the best solution for using transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer 6?

Lack of proper PNG support in IE6 is a well-known issue, with several solutions. There does not appear to be a clear best accepted practice or method. What do you propose the best solution is, and why? ...

HTML Page Layout Looks Fine in IE7 but not IE6

I have an ASP.NET MVC View that works great on IE7, but looks really crappy when I try to view it with IE6. With IE6, the white area of the page (the ContentPlaceHolder part) is bunched over to the right and does weird things like move around when I resize the window. I have looked in the .aspx, Site.Master, and Site.css to see what is...

Can't load SSL sites using Microsoft Virtual PC Windows XP / IE 6 Image

I'm trying to test my site in IE 6 using Microsoft's Win XP / IE 6 virtual machine image, but I'm unable to load any SSL site in either IE 6 or Firefox 2 inside of the virtual machine. Outside of the VM all sites load as expected, but inside it can't find the sites in either browser. Non-SSL sites load fine inside the VM. For example, t...