internet-explorer-7

How to overcome IE7 padding issues?

IE7 is driving me crazy. I know is a small thing, but I don't know what else to google, and I know I am missing something very small. <div id="spotlightHolder"> <div id="spotlight"> <div id="spotlightMessage"> <h1 id="spotlightTitle">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</h1> <p id="spotlightDescription">Lorem ipsum dolor, con...

jQuery AJAX problem in IE7 (possibly other versions as well)...

Can anyone enlighten me as to why the following code won't work in IE7 but it works just fine in Chrome/Firefox? $(document).ready(function(){ $.ajax({ type: "POST", dataType: "text", cache: false, url: "/ajax/ajax.asp", data: "cmd=check_forfeits", success: function(msg) { return false; } }); }); ...

IE7 iso-8859-1 encoding

I'm noticing that when posting a form through IE7, accented characters are getting messed up as soon as the request hits the server. But in FF3 it works just fine. The page encoding is set to ISO-8859-1. Is there any particular place I should start investigating? Thanks in advance! EDIT: The behavior I'm noticing is specifically a ü ch...

Conditional comment not working for a <link>

I have a a conditional comment in my page to fix a double padding-top problem with IE7. I am trying to add "padding-top:5px;" to a DIV only in IE7. The rest of the browsers (including IE6 and IE8) use "padding-top:10px;" contained in stylesheet.css. stylesheet.css contains .clImageSamplerText {padding-top:10px;} stylesheet_ie7.css ...

Why Doesn't IE7 recognize my css padding styles on anchor tags?

My site is working fine in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera, but for some reason IE7 is not recognizing css padding on any anchor tags. I can't figure this out. In IE7, if you look at the tabs that say "exclusives|popular|recent comments" on the homepage http://revolvermag.com, you'll see that there is no padding getting applied. I'v...

a bug in ie7 - body -direction:rtl

When i set the body element direction to rtl, in ie7 (compatability view in ie8), and hover over ul li , it shifts wierdly to the left by a couple of inches. a good example for this is the default asp.net mvc css (after adding direction:rtl to the body elemet. anyone know this one? the example code: /*-------------------------------...

why doesn't ie8 compatibility mode work?

a client's page that was built for ie7 was tagged using the compatibility mode meta tag, so that it rendered correctly on ie8 as well. this worked for a while. recently, testing the page reveals some severe issues, that are resolved only once the 'compatibility mode' button at the top of the browser is pressed. the tag is correct and is ...

jQuery Drop Down Menu IE7 Problem with .slideDown

I have the following jquery on mcgillidssa.com to animate the drop down menu: $(document).ready(function() { $("#navigation ul li").hover(function() { $(this).addClass("over"); $(this).find("ul").slideDown('fast').show(); $(this).hover(function() { }, function(){ $(this).removeClass("over"); $(this).find("ul").slideUp('f...

Add margin to 100% width element in IE7?

In IE7 I'd like to add some margin to a element that has 100% width of it's parent. But the element overflows it's parent. Somewhat logical, but what's a solution to this problem? I added a simplified example, where the yellow div overflows it's green parent. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3...

Why is ie7 ignoring the left-margin on my first list item (only)??

http://blog.helpcurenow.org/test/mockups/mar2010/lp.html In the above landing page, I have an offers box that has four donation buttons. The first three are targeted with individual id's and given a left margin of 13px. All is well in every browser I'm viewing in except ie7. For some reason ie7 is ignoring the left-margin of 13px on th...

How do I get IE7 to print this <table> properly with columns hidden by CSS?

Note that this only seems to be an issue in Internet Explorer versions 7 and lower. Here's a dumbed-down version of my HTML: <table> <colgroup> <col width="20" class="hidden_col" /> <col width="50" /> <col /> </colgroup> <tr> <td class="hidden_col"><input type="checkbox" /></td> <td>Title</td> <td>Longer Description</td> </tr> </tabl...

Where can I find a list of things that break Javascript in IE 7 & 8?

Some of my scripts work fine in FireFox, but give errors in ie7 & 8. Where can I find resources on how to avoid/fix these errors? For example, I get this error in ie7 & 8 but no error in FireFox 3: Expected ')' ...

IE e.keyCode - How can I differentiate between ampersand and up-arrow?

I am fighting with a very strange javascript behavior on a jQuery UI widget I'm trying to fix. IE7 (win XP), jQuery 1.2.6 (yes, it's an old version). The widget is a combo-box, which captures keyboard events and has special behaviors for the arrow keys. When I try to type the "&" character into the flexbox input field, I get strange be...

Are ActiveX objects blocked from accessing the clipboard in Internet Explorer 7?

I have an ActiveX Object which uses Tidestone's Formula One (Verion 6). In it I have a button which lets the user copy the contents of the control to the Clipboard, but since Internet Explorer 7 was installed, all they get is a message which states "Unable to open clipboard" (even when running in compatibility mode). I know there's a s...

JavaScript problem with IE

I built a site about 6 months ago now and designed a menu with some interactivity using jQuery. It worked great in my friends (Firefox, Safari, etc). Turns out that now IE7 & 8 are not playing ball. The error in IE points to jQuery (on Google's CDN) with invalid argument. The page can be viewed here. Move your mouse over the top heade...

Why doenst it apply my IE stylesheet?

If you take a look at: http://www.nrgi-raadgivning.dk/erhverv You can see in the code, that if you are coming from an IE, it should apply a stylesheet... The IE stylesheet is supposed to set the margin:0 at the dropdown menu ul, but i doesnt? Any ideas to whats wrong? ...

display:inline-block and text-indent

I am experiencing a problem with the following code in some versions of Internet Explorer: #iconautente{ background-image:url('/style/images/spritecommon.png'); /*icona_utente.png*/ background-position:-117px -15px; text-indent:-9000px; width:20px; height:23px; display:inline-block; } <a id="iconautente" href="/admin/index.php">admin<...

CSS Layout not working in IE7 (all other browsers are fine)

I'm working on a project whereby the University has full control over the source code (Drupal) and all I can do is CSS Overrides in the theme area. The problem that I'm having is that the header is not staying where it is supposed to in IE7. IE8 along with Firefox, Chrome, and Safari work exactly as expected. Here is my CSS Overrides ...

ASP.NET - Refreshing a posted page that isn't cached on IE

Lets say you have a page with headers that tell the browser not to cache. Also, this page has already been posted back to itself. Now you hit the refresh button and you click cancel on the IE modal box with the "previously submitted..." message. You get "Webpage has expired". This doesn't happen in FF or Chrome. Is there a way to pr...

IE 7 acting strange or is it just me.

Hello everyone I have a html like this: The idea is that divs are floated left and when there are more than 3 divs. The next one shoud start at the next line. (Because of the width). This works in almost all the browsers. Even in IE6. But when it comes to IE7. It puts the 4th div on the same line. Any ideas why? <div id="content"> ...