internet-explorer-8

Remove space after form in IE8

Please view the following URL in IE8 and then in any other browser. http://minorityrecruitonline.com/college/default.aspx It looks fine in every browser except for IE8. The culprit is the extra space being included after the </form> tag. Does anyone know how to remove this space from IE8? I have tried all the usual tricks of adding ma...

After a few window.open calls my ASP.NET session times out

I have an ASP.NET application that uses StateServer session mode with cookieless set to false. In a few places, there is a link that pops up a window to another application (which happens to reside on the same domain, but in a different virtual directory). The following steps give me grief... Launch popup Close popup Launch popup to ...

IE7 / IE8 z-index problem

Running in compatibility mode the calendar below renders behind the textboxes below. IE8 displays the calendar how I need it to. My CSS .MyCalendar .ajax__calendar_container { border:1px solid #7F9DB9; background-color: #ffffff; z-index : 1004 ; width:190px; } the textboxes which are overlaying the calendar don't have their z-...

Internet Explorer 8: Navigate to users home page

I've been using the following script for a few years now to navigate to the users home page when a button is clicked. However, with the start of IE8, this does not work as it appears "about:home" is no longer valid. if(window.home) { // for everything but IE: window.home(); } else { // for IE: window.location = "about:home"; // ...

Making DiveIntoPython3 work in IE8 (fixing a Javascript performance issue)

I am trying to fix the performance problem with Dive Into Python 3 on IE8. Visit this page in IE8 and, after a few moments, you will see the following popup: I traced down the culprit down to this line in j/dip3.js ... find("tr:nth-child(" + (i+1) + ") td:nth-child(2)"); If I disable it (and return from the function immediately), th...

How can I fix this strange IE 8 img anchor hover behaviour?

If I add this to my CSS... small a:hover, a:hover {background-color: #CCC; } This happens to all images that are also links when viewing in IE 8 (fine in firefox)... They look right... http://notails.com/nothover.jpg until I hover over them... http://notails.com/hover.jpg If I remove the line of CSS the behaviour goes away. I'v...

IE8 vertical margin bug

I'm having a small issue with just IE8 in standards mode. The issue is with the vertical margin between the first 2 in a vertical list of blocks elements being 1 pixel too little . This is a subtle bug and most noticable with a 1 pixel margin when it collapses completely but I can't think of an easy fix. It doesn't seem to be a margin c...

I am having two CSS problems with IE7 and IE8.

The webpage is www.voteforvan.com In firefox of course it is perfect. In IE7 the menu isn't showing up and the search box disappeared all together. In IE8 the search box is out of place. Can someone help me find an answer to this. ...

IE8 ignores zero-width space when it comes before a slash in standards mode

I have a table with variable-width cells, and I want to give the browser the option to insert a line break before a slash, without forcing it. I tried this by inserting a zero-width space (ZWSP) character before the slash, and it works fine in all the browsers I tested it in, except IE6 and IE8. For IE6, I use some Javascript to replace...

JQuery UI modal dialog uses 100% CPU

When I have a modal JQuery dialog open in IE8, my CPU usage goes to 100% (no, actually 50, but that's 100% of one core). If I break developer tools, it seems that it's a lot of resize events firing (I don't do any volontary resizing). Has someone else encountered this issue and knows how to fix it? ...

jquery ui dialog and IE

Hello, I am trying to write a simple dialog that is called by the flash image gallery on the site and appears on this flash animation but it works pretty weird under IE such as: -sometimes showing several of the same item, how can I prevent opening dialog if there is one already existing? -after opening a dialog and when trying to close...

how to solve the ie 8 table row background image bug

Hi, anyone can help me solve this problem? the solution doesent work on IE 8. in a nutshell - if you apply a background picture to a table row the background is applied to the inner cells. thanks! ...

Floating DIVs in IE7 vs. IE8, Firefox, Chrome and Safari

Hi folks, I'm a bit stumped on this one. I am referring to this page - http://savitarbernese.com/welcome.aspx. At the moment it looks okay on IE7 but I can't seem to get it to work on other browsers. As it stands now I had to wrap a couple of DIVs within tables to make the background extend behind the full content. I'm guessing this has...

Comprehensive list of IE8 changes that break JavaScript code

Is there a list online somewhere of IE8 changes that might break existing JavaScript code? We have a few clients which we developed a few different apps for using jQuery, YUI and some pure JavaScript. All have problems after upgrading their browsers to IE8. The jQuery display we did won't show. Tabs in YUI won't work. And table.deleteRo...

Problem with IE8 when i am using windows user control in asp.net website

Dear programmers, please help me.. I used windows user control in asp.net website. it is running in IE7 but not in IE8 PLease sugeest me how to run my website in IE8 ??? I used code like that <object id="OperationsControl" classid="clock_control.dll#clock_control.UserControl1" > </object> ...

IE8 XSS Filter Question

The IE8 cross site scripting filter seems to be causing some intermittent issues with our app. To be honest, I have not yet isolated it, and it may very well be some sort of IE8 add-on, or, some security software, but there seems to be at least some relationship to the new xss filter in IE8. I have done some preliminary research, and th...

Setting borders around tbody, thead and tfoot with IE8

Hi, I've designed a table in html that uses tbody, tfoot and thead. I would like to put a border-bottom and border-top on my tbody. Which works perfectly well with Firefox and Google Chrome. However Internet Explorer 8 does not display the borders at all. After searching on the internet I haven't found any solution that did not involve...

IE8 forced to compatibility mode

My team is developing a website with a pretty complicated UI; jQuery, ASP.Net AJAX, etc. Of course I want my site to be compatible with all the modern browsers. Sometimes, in testing or general usage of the site while it is being developed, IE8 tells me that the page doesn't work in standards mode and it is switching to compatibility m...

IE8 Standards Mode Kicking into Compatibility Mode Error Log?

So I'm developing a site and trying to troubleshoot several different browsers and I noticed when I run through my site in IE8 Standards mode sometimes it kicks me out and forces me to goto into IE8 Compatibility mode. I was wondering if there was any kind of log that this created so I can track down why it did this. ...

IE8 Borders & Padding - Not rendering like IE7 and other browsers.

IE8 not rendering padding & borders properly when doctype is ste to strict. Any suggestions? With doctype set to loose, the borders and padding are okay, but other bigger problems beyond CSS appear, so we're sticking w/ strict. Any suggestions on where to start to resolve border & padding style discrepancies? ...