internet-explorer-8

Why would ie8 center text when the text-align is set to left?

Using ie8's own dev tools it shows the elements text-align value as left, but it is rendered centered in ie8 standards mode. In quirks or ie7 standards, everything is correctly aligned left. New user, so I can't post images, but check out: http://i35.tinypic.com/2afa9ky.png ...

Using multiple-class selectors in IE7 and IE8

I know IE7 & IE8 supposedly have support for using multiple CSS class selectors, but I can't seem to get it to work. CSS: .column { float: left; display: block; margin-right: 20px; width: 60px; } .two.column { width: 140px; } .three.column { width: 220px; } .four.column { width: 300px; } HTML: <div class='two column'>T...

IE8 Hang on XSL transform

We have a site that does clientside xsl formatting. In IE8, when logging into the website, IE hangs 1 out of 4 times. The random hang only occurs in combination with Response.Redirect. LandingPage.asp post submits to Login.asp. When credentials are correct: Login.asp does a Response.Redirect to PersonalDossier.asp. When I post direct...

IE8 Leaving space for Unneeded scrollbars

My page is a 3 column design with a header. It renders nicely in IE6 and IE7 (as far as i know). I use javascript to size certain elements of the page, to fit the browser window. On IE8 however, it tries to leave spaces for scrollbars, even when they are not rendered, resulting in a jumping effect when you resize (Page alternates between...

Why is one installation of IE8 (unexpectedly) loading pages from cache, while others are not?

I have website that is ASP.NET with Forms Authentication, clicking the logout button does correctly call FormsAuthenication.SignOut() so it invalidates the cookie. All machines in the office are using IE8 and work fine, just like Firefox. But one installation of IE8 will load cached copies of authenticated pages even after logging out w...

IE8 problem with multilingual website

Hi i have develop and deploy one multilingual (english uk and swedish) website at India in following server Intel® Xeon® Processor, 2.00+ GHz 4 GB RAM 350+ GB HDD (usable hard disk space) Windows Server 2008 standard edition Oracle 10g Standard Edition When user at sweden is accessing website from sweden they are facing foll...

Conditional comment for 'Except IE8' ?

I'm using <!--[if IE 8]><![endif]--> for targeting IE8, but there's some JS that I want to load for all browsers EXCEPT IE8, what conditional comment should I use? Edit: I wonder if this would work: <!--[if lte IE 8]><![endif]--> Thanks ...

Getting a Error with Jquery.Validate Plugin in IE 8

Hi I don't know what is going but my jquery validate plugin(1.5.5) is not working and I am not sure for how long since I do most of my testing on firefox. The problem is this I go to one of my forms that jquery validate on it and hit my "create" button my validation kicks in as it should and does this right in all browsers including IE...

Does IE8 have rendering bugs like 6 or 7?

Does IE8 have rendering bugs like 6 or 7? If I make my site render correctly in Firefox 3.5, will it look the same in IE8 or will additional changes / hack / etc... be needed? I want to make my site IE8 compatible. Do I need to do something extra for that? Update: 6 march 2010 Is there a possibility , I will have to add conditional cs...

Content within Floating Window using jQuery SimpleModal plugin cannot be replaced after opening twice in IE8

Hi all I am using SimpleModal plugin for showing dynamic content within a floating window. On this floating window a Javascript function call has been included (on a click event), which is changing some content on this floating window. This works all very well with FF. But there is an issue with IE (I have tested with IE8 only): Only a...

JavaScript inside Ajax - Internet Explorer

I would like to add a Javascript at the end of some ajax content, It works fine on firefox but internet explorer print the script without running it. <script type="text/javascript"> $.tablesorter.addParser({ id: 'title', is: function(s) { return false; }, format: function(s) { s= s....

IE8 Javascript doesnt run unless Developer Tools is open?

For some reason, in IE8, javascript is not running unless I reload the page with Developer Tools open. I close developer tools and reload the page and the javascript stops working. I'm not getting any error reports (not that they'd be any use anyway). Anyone else had this problem? ...

Internet Explorer, How to change iframes src

For some reasons I'm using an Iframe to display googlemaps, when I want to change it's content I'm just changing the Iframe src using JQuery. $('#ggMap').attr('src', 'http://newurl.com'); Apparently it's not doing anything on Internet Explorer. Does anyone know how I could do the same thing with IE? ...

ie7 and ie8 ignore "margin:0px auto;"

http://blog.helpcurenow.org I'm working on the development of this blog and it seems ie7 and ie8 both are displaying the content so that the container seems to be ignoring the "margin:0px auto;" rule. It could be something else I'm just not getting, but either way the effect is that the content (as well as the navigational links) are f...

ASP.NET - Issues with position of controls in IE8

Hello, recently I've moved on to testing my web aplication in IE8, however, I've noticed that the position of my controls now all over the place. This was not apparent when I was testing my app with IE7 and Firefox 3.5. I know that there is a suggested "fix" for this issue by including meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=E...

Adobe PDF Links Problem in IE8

Hey there, I created a link in a pdf document to a local html file ressource. When you press the link, the following messagebox is shown: For none German speakers... Securitywarning ... Document is trying to open ressource... are u sure that you wanna do that... Options are "Ok" or "Block" But it is independent if click "block" or ...

IE8 not applying cookies across domain appropriately -- only on one machine

I have any interesting problem that has me totally stumped. I have a piece of production code that I built that reads an IBM LTPA token cookie set by a machine managed by another dept, validates it, and uses it to log into a system my group manages (by setting some special cookies). This single sign-on process is entirely transparent t...

IE8 Browser Mode & Standards Mode

I need to force IE8 to display as follows: Browser Mode: Internet Explorer 8 Document Mode: IE8 Standards I have added this tag however it only affects the document mode, not the browser mode. How do I override browser mode to ensure the page is always shown with IE8 browser mode too? <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8...

Linking to a forced download script in a pdf

I am generating dynamic PDF reports in PHP and having some issues with links to the web. My links are to a PHP script that forces the download of a file attachment. This script works perfectly in all browser when accessed via the browser. It also works from the PDF in all browser except Internet Explorer. Instead of IE seeing the fil...

msie strange div formatting (among other issues) what am I doing wrong?

Hi folks. On the page http://listtree.appspot.com/about/bEcPYABxI$6UeBDHzASwlA if I scroll to the bottom using MSIE 8 the left hand side yellow div borders to a weird jumping up and down dance -- what am I doing wrong? I have similar pages where this isn't happening and the "developers tools" interface seems happy with the html. Also...