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IE Conditionals suddenly stopped working after Windows XP Security update....

Really bizarre stuff goin on here. I installed some security updates for XP...then I fire up my text editor to do some coding, and realize that my IE conditionals don't work anymore. Anyone have any suggestions for me? I've Googled this til the cows come home. I've tried uninstalling the updates, but Windoze keeps re-installing them....

A confusing problem with IE7 and styles being applied

For the life of me, I can not figure out why some styles are not being applied to an unordered list. If you view this site: http://www.alclawyers.com.au/ in Firefox, you will notice there are circles down the bottom of the text that can be clicked to shift to different panels of content. Now, when you visit the same site in IE7, none o...

Wrong extraction of .attr("href") in IE7 vs all other browsers?

Can it really be true that the attr("href") command for a link is handled very different in IE7 in comparison to all other browsers? Let's say I have a page at http://example.com/page.html and I have this HTML: <a href="#someAnchor" class="lnkTest">Link text</a> and this jQuery: var strHref = $(".lnkTest").attr("href"); Then in IE...

IE7 - Save web page as .MHT and iframes

Hi, I'm trying to save a web page as MHTML (.mht) file in Internet Explorer 7. I googled and found some javascript lines + an activex to accomplish that: <script type="text/javascript"> function save() { document.all.WebBrowser.ExecWB(4,1); } </script> <object id="WebBrowser" width='0' height='0' classid="CLSID:8856F961-340A-11D0-...

Strange IIS 7 problem when using redirection for images

Hi, I have a very odd problem with IE7. I've created an aspx page, which contains several images. Images are included using standard img tag: <img src="/dir/image.jpg" /> This page is served through SSL. However, I don't want to serve any images through SSL, so I've used ISAPI rewrite to rewrite any SSL URLs. After I've done this, I n...

Which CSS bug is this? (margin-bottom, ie6 + ie7)

In ie6 and ie7, the margin-bottom from the p is being applied to both the p AND the div just below it. In other words, this code will apply a margin-bottom of 20px to both the p and the div in ie6 and ie7. No problems in any version of FF, Opera, Chrome/Safari or ie8. <p style="margin-bottom: 20px;">Hello world!</p> <div style="float: ...

IE7 & IE8 Padding/margin problems

Hi, I've already posted this problem but i didn't manage to resolve the issue from the answers i received... Hopefully i will get lucky this time. I've also include all the code etc... so this should make it easy to pin point the issue. IE7 Screen shot IE8 Screen shot please see the HTML & CSS for the entire website Any help wou...

DIV Width Not Expanding To Fit Width Of Child DIVs - IE7

I have a page with an ASP.NET Gridview on it...this Gridview is located in a child DIV inside a parent DIV. That Gridview can often go wider than the parent DIV width set. In IE6 the MAINDIV (Parent DIV) would expand to fit the expanded Gridview contained within the child DIV. In IE7 the DIV will not expand so it overlaps the DIV and ...

ASP.Net Charts - Obtaining via jQuery on IE 7 causes the image not to load

I am using the ASP.Net Charting Controls and ASP.Net MVC. I am trying to have a chart displayed on a page, the user can change various data associated with this chart and then press a button which will perform a POST operation and then return a newly rendered chart. This is refreshed via jQuery which loads a partial view containing th...

Issue with window.showModalDialog and overflow:auto in IE7

Here's the issue. I open up a popup using window.showModalDialog in IE7. The popup is a page with a and some filter dropdowns, etc. and a result set at the bottom with is wrapped in a div that uses: overflow:auto. The first time we open up the popup the default resultset dsiplays just fine. But when I click retrieve (to post the form ...

IE6 and IE7 floating bug inside a header

We have an anchor tag floating right inside a header issue. It works fine on IE8 and Firefox. Any idea how to stop it popping outside the header box? Here is the code below: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; <html> <head> <style> .wrapper { bo...

Radio Buttons display incorrectly in IE7 but ok in Firefox?

Hi, I have a site setup that is working fine in ie8 and firefox but as you can see here: Is this an issue with some css or a png transparency? Or is this just something with IE7. Thanks in advance :) ...

IE7 issue - cannot download streamed file when Automatic prompting for file downloads is disabled

Hi, My application is J2EE (JSP/Servlet) based. I encounter an issue when i try to open a new window (pop-up) from JSP and call a Servlet action (e.g. Streamer.do) which streams a PDF file inside that pop-up. Problem: While IE 7 -> Tools -> Internet Options -> Security -> Custom Level -> Downloads -> Automatic prompting for file downl...

jquery ie7 css height inconsistent result compared to firefox

var heightOfDIV = $thisElement.css('height'); alert(heightOfDIV); The above works as I expected it to work when I am using Firefox. It returns me the div element that triggers the above code. I get the height as 393px. however in IE7, i get auto. This is causing me issues. By the way, the above code is run in the afterExpand($thisE...

IE7 Displays Whitespace afer png

I have a div that contains a PNG background-image. After the div is displayed on my web page in IE7, there is a whitespace between the div and footer. All other browsers (incl. IE8) display the PNG correctly. Any ideas on a resolution would be appreciated? ...

IE not detecting proxy server hosted on a VM

Hi guys, I was writing a proxy server in C#.NET. My Proxy server has been hosted on a VM (say vm1). Now when I access internet through IE in vm1 the request goes through the proxy server as expected. But if I use another VM say vm2 to access internet through IE the 'Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage' is displayed. I checked t...

CSS text-select cursor ie7, strange behavior

Strange one here, hoping to get some feedback to point me in the right direction. If my #wrapper or any of the child divs do not have a background-color applied to them, ie7 changes the normal "pointer" cursor into a "text-select" cursor when mousing around the page (whether mousing over text or not). I thought I had fixed the problem ...

How to trace and debug IE's javascript error in firefox?

If I am using many js files in my project and get JavaScript errors in IE 6 or 7's status bar, then how can I trace, find and solve those errors in Firefox? I know how to trace a problem in IE with visual studio but can we identify area of problem using Firefox? ...

jQuery OEmbed Plugin - Error: Object doesn't support this property or method

Hello all, I'm currently using the following jQuery plugin: jQuery OEmbed. This plugin works great in FF, Chrome, and Safari. However, I am having an issue in IE7. I have stripped my code down to very bare-bones, but still can't figure out what would be causing the following error: Error: Object doesn't support this property or met...

How to get "position:fixed" css to work in IE 7+ with TRANSITIONAL doctype?

I know that position:fixed; was not supported by IE until IE 7, and it only works in IE 7 if you have a STRICT DOCTYPE. My question is: "How do I get it work with IE 7 with TRANSITIONAL DOCTYPE?" Please don't suggest changing a DOCTYPE, as this does not answer my question, thank you. ...