internet-explorer-7

Catching a tab close event in web browser?

Is there any way of knowing if the user closes a tab in a web browser? Specifically IE7, but also FireFox and others as well. I would like to be able to handle this situation from our asp code if the current tab containing our web site closes. ...

Simple ColdFusion script works in IE but not Firefox?

I have a very simple bit of script that changes the status of an item in a MySql database - it works fine in IE7, but if I try it in Firefox, it looks like it's worked, but hasn't... Which is extremely odd. The code is very simple - first I get the details of the record I'm looking for: <cfscript> // Get the Product Attribute details A...

Problem with :hover in IE7

Hi all, I've got such a simple code: <div class="div1"> <div class="div2" >Foo</div> <div class="div3"> <div class="div4"> <div class="div5"> Bar </div> </div> </div> </div> and this CSS: .div1{ position:relative; } .div1 .div3 { position:absolute; top:30px; left:0px; width:250px; ...

totally lost -- textarea in IE7 disappears when i mouse over

i'm just going to toss this question up in a rough form now, while i'm thinking of it, and come back to flesh out the details. it's terribly vexing. maybe someone here will know wtf is going on. i have this big data-entry sort of page, a table-kind of layout using divs. each row has subrows which can be toggled open/closed. the toggling...

Enable local scripts and flash in ie7

I'm running an old little app which runs in the browser from local files, and I keep getting the, "To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this webpage from running scripts or Activex controls that could access your computer" message. Is there a registry setting or something I can tweak to allow it to run automat...

IE7 detected as IE6 on Vista...Why?

I have two vista Business machines. I have IE 7 installed on both. On my first machine (Computer1) if I go to this site (http://www.quirksmode.org/js/detect.html), it says I am using "Explorer 6 on Windows". If I use Computer2 with Vista Business and IE7, it says I am using "Explorer 7 on Windows". Here is a screen capture. The same...

IE7 form not prompted for remember password when submitted through javascript

I have a website where we use Javascript to submit the login form. On Firefox it prompts the user to remember their password, when they login, but on IE7 it doesn't. After doing some research it looks like the user is only prompted in IE7 when the form is submitted via a Submit control. I've created some sample html to prove this is t...

IE 7 redirecting after jQuery ajax calls

I have the following code in my file to load a div with HTML from an AJAX call: $('#searchButton').click( function() { $('#inquiry').load('/search.php?pid=' + $('#searchValue').val()); }); This works fine in Firefox and Google Chrome, but whenever I do the search in IE I get redirected back to index.php. I grabbed the URL from Fir...

Strange float behaviour in IE7

I want to create a simple box with a header bar containing a title and some tool buttons. I have the following markup: <div style="float:left"> <div style="background-color:blue; padding: 1px; height: 20px;"> <div style="float: left; background-color:green;">title</div> <div style="float: right; background-color:yellow;">t...

Is there a way to set the default page size when printing in IE7?

I recently convinced a customer to upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 but now she is having an issue printing. When printing emails from her webmail in IE6 they would print at 75% and fit on a single page. Now with IE7 they added the "Shirnk to Fit" option which is the default. This doesn't work as expected and makes her previously 1 page em...

table layout wrong in IE(7)

below is the code of a simple html with a table layout. in FF it's looking as i think it should look like, in IE7 it doesn't. what am I doing wrong? and how can I fix it? <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <TITLE>test</TITLE> </head> <body> <table id="MainTable" cellspaci...

How can I stop Excel 2003 from hanging after opening a spreadsheet in IE?

I have a web application which provides Excel files via IE 7. It requests the files with an HTTP GET from a URL which returns the data with a content type of 'application/vnd.ms-excel'. It then opens the spreadsheets in an IFrame. This all works fine unless Excel is already open when a spreadsheet is downloaded. In this case it is still...

[ASP.NET] File download does not work with IE7

I have an asp.net page which sends content of a file to the client, so the browser shows the save as dialog to download the file. This page is displayed in a popup and when the user clicks the save button, it closes automatically and the download starts. On windows server 2003, it works fine. On vista with other browsers, also works fin...

CSS bleed-through with cfinput type="datefield"

I have a form using multiple <cfinput type="datefield" ...>. They are positioned in such a way that the pop-up CSS calendar should appear over the field for others. However, the text fields for the other dates end up in front of the calendar. This is only an IE issue as Firefox and Safari work just fine. Is there a simple CSS hack or s...

Images not rendering in IE7 (but working fine in IE6/Firefox)

Hi all, Having an issue with some images using IE7 - work fine in 6 and in all versions of Firefox. Has anyone run across this before? I know I've had it happen in the past (and I googled a fix, but darned if I can find the fix again... note to self, document things like this for future ;) ) <div class="contextBlock"> <p class="cntIm...

Problems using LightBox 2 with IE7

I'm having a problem with IE7 when clicking on images that open up using the Lightbox 2 javascript image viewer. Instead of overlaying the image on the current page it opens the image into a separate page. Not sure if this is an AJAX problem possibly ? Works fine in Firefox. Anybody else come across this before ? ...

IE7 and the statusbar

Hi, Is there a way to spawn a new window via javascript in IE7 that hides the statusbar? I've added the intranet app as a trusted site. Not sure what else I can use to try. This is my JS window.open("http:/localhost/start.html", "MyApp", "left=0, top=0, width=" + screen.width + "," + "height=" + screen.height + ", scrollba...

Bizarre IE CSS Problem.

So my problem has to do with a Sticky footer that works, but a rounded corner script pushes the footer up a bit in IE7. (example: Games Page) If you load the page in IE7, the footer is in the wrong place, but if you do the following: 1. Open a new tab 2. Go to google.ca in the new tab (or do something) 3. Close the tab The footer problem...

How can I view more than one version of IE on my computer?

Where I work we only have IE 7. I want to view IE 6 on my computer also. How can I view both on the same computer? I want more than just a screen shot. I want to view both versions of IE as I write code. ...

IE7 and the CSS table-cell property

So I just love it when my application is working great in Firefox, but then I open it in IE and... Nope, please try again. The issue I'm having is that I'm setting a CSS display property to either none or table-cell with JavaScript. I was initially using display: block, but Firefox was rendering it weird without the table-cell property...