internet-explorer-8

Jquery display problem in IE

I have a kind of "tab" solution built in jquery. When a user clicks a tab I get the id of that tab and shows the right content for that tab based on the id. It works perfect in Firefox, when the tab is clicked it hides all divs with class "Page" and then show the right Page. In IE8 it also works in the same way BUT a strange thing happ...

sifr throwing 'G.brokenFlashIE' is null or not an object error

We are getting this error occurring randomly throughout the site, but only on one computer that we've noticed so far. We have not gone live with our site (it's in the QA phase) and only one person testing this site seems to be having this issue come up. Here is the error message: User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows N...

Box model hack not working in Internet Explorer 8

I have two nested divs that are supposed to both be 400 pixels tall. The sidebar div shows up correctly in Chrome and Firefox, but in Internet Explorer 8 I'm having trouble getting it to be wide enough AND tall enough due to Internet Explorer's screwed up box model. I've tried using the box model hack to fix it, but it didn't appear to...

IE8 XSS filter: what does it really do?

Internet Explorer 8 has a new security feature, an XSS filter that tries to intercept cross-site scripting attempts. It's described this way: The XSS Filter, a feature new to Internet Explorer 8, detects JavaScript in URL and HTTP POST requests. If JavaScript is detected, the XSS Filter searches evidence of reflection, information...

Launching WSH/VBScript file from IE8 not working

I have created a custom rightclick menu element in IE8 using the following registry info: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt\WebOn edit] @="c:\\webon_edit\\wo_edit.vbs" The choice "WebOn edit" shows up in IE8's rightclick menu. Before upgrading to Windows 7, this worked fine: When I clicked the menu choice...

WebBrowser Control IE8 Compatibility Mode On/Off Switch

I am having a IE8 compatibility issue while using the WebBrowser control to navigate to a website. The strange thing is sometimes the website works, but more than likely it wont. I can refresh the page sometimes and it works as well. Just going to the page in IE8 I experienced the same CSS rendering problems so I switched to compatibil...

Problem with :contains selector in IE8

I'm working on the following selector in jQuery: $("div[id^=WebPartWPQ]:has(table.ms-sitedirresultssort) td:contains(' : ')").closest('div') In other words: select the div with ID starting with WebPartWPQ that has a table with class ms-sitedirresultssort that has a td containing the text :. At the end of this question is the HTML rend...

Force IE8 *not* to use Compatibility View

Hi, Just updated my site to newer, much more standards compliant design. My previous design was so rubbish that I had to use the IE=EmulateIE tag to force IE7 emulation. Unfortunately, I believe that browsers may be caching this setting from previous visits, causing my new site (which looks great without the button pressed) to look ru...

fixing ASP.NET website that works in IE6, to work in IE8

Hi, I need to fix a ASP.NET website that works in IE6, to work in IE8 browser. I added the EmulateIE7 http header to IIS6 as short term fix, but still the pages are not displayed correctly. the web app was initially designed and developed for IE6, now we are upgrading to IE8, so is there any quick fix available for IE6 website to displa...

IE8 is posting form data partially

Everything was working perfectly ... suddenly after I installed Visual studio 2010 beta2, IE8 started to behave strangely. Only the data that was sent to the browser gets posted back when submit button is clicked. Any additional fields are ignored and are nulls. It works perfectly on FireFox 3.5+. I uninstalled Visual studio 2010 beta2 ...

forcing IE8 browser display a website in IE6 standards mode

Hi, there are document compatibility modes for all versions of IE browsers, but none for IE6. why is it like that? how can I make IE8/IE7 browser display a website in IE6 standards mode? other than changing the code to use conditional statements for different browsers, or different websites altogether, is there any easier or better sol...

Safe user control hosted in IE 8

Hi everyone, Since Internet Explorer 8 has added its new UI-less URLAction to check the .NET MIME Filter, mscorie.dll, for content from the Internet zone, i have to register my web server to the trusted site's list to load my user control (C# framework 3.5). But I can't touch the client machine's configuration, so i need to make this w...

IE8 CSS Complications

Greetings, I have a php site that was working fine as of the start of the year. Then a patch came out for IE8 which caused the CSS I had to malfunction. Is this a know problem or an isolated issue? My main problem stems from trying to lock a header into place while allowing the body to be scrollable with: position: fixed; overflow:...

CSS background source gets 'flashy' in IE8 + Vista

Hi, i know, the title is a bit crampy, but it's a weird problem. i'm planning to adopt a open source webdesign. It all looks good on firefox 3.5 on vista, but when i open it up in Ie8 on vista the background goes 'flashy' on reload (i can't find another word, sorry) what i THINK happens is that the background source (a 1px width and 12...

Does increased the size of width to 10000px in <td> so as to load correctly in IE8 has any bad effects

I have an application which was built on IE6 which runs comfortably on IE7 as well as FF.But coming to IE8 all the CSS is completely broken and ruined the application. In the course of fixing the broken CSS it came to know most of the places its only width that was previously working is not getting proper width of which it being provide...

How to edit and see live CSS effect in IE8 like we see in Firefox > Web developer toolbar > Edit CSS function?

How to edit and see css effect in IE8 like we see in Firefox > Web developer toolbar > Edit CSS function? Where is similar function in IE8 developer toolbar or does any other IE plugin have this type functionality? ...

IE8 Toggle Bug?

I think I have an issue with IE8 and it's driving me nuts. let me explain it with images and an online demo. When you first visit the page it's all normal as you see below Then when you click to the "Click here to add new one" button.. it displays a div that includes a form... untill now it still works fine as you see below... Whe...

Input boxes with transparent background are not clickable in IE8

I have an absolutely positioned input box in a form. The input box has transparent background: .form-page input[type="text"] { border: none; background-color: transparent; /* Other stuff: font-weight, font-size */ } Surprisingly, I cannot select this input box by clicking on it in IE8. It works perfectly in Fir...

Cross-window Javascript: is there a right way?

Problem I'm trying to make a method that passes objects to a similar method in a popup window. I don't have control over the code in the target method, or the object passed in. The target method currently serialises the object, using JSON.stringify where possible, or instanceof Array. The first problem with this is a bug in IE8 (see ...

Disabled Textbox: Unexpected Values for window.event.clientX & clientY

I have some mouse-tracking code that isn't working as expected in IE that basically boils down to the HTML below. I've tried this in both IE7 and IE8. The part that's unexpected is when you mouse over the text in the disabled textbox, the values for window.event.clientX and clientY seem to be relative to that text instead of the whole w...