internet-explorer-8

Issue with Internet explorer 8

Hi Every one, I have designed a web page in ASP.Net. And ran it in IE 8. Than changed the zoom size into 400%. Then changed it into 100%. Now the size(Height) of the dropdownboxes in the page has got affected. How can I overcome this? ...

ajax issue on IE8

I have an old site that uses xml documents, and when I created it i had firefox and IE7 to test on, and it worked just great. Since then, IE8 appeared, and it seams that the site does no longer work properly. This is the current code: if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { XMLHttpRequestObject = new XMLHttpRequest(); XMLHttp...

msxml XMLHTTP for large json object works very slow on IE8 and quite good on Firefox - why?

Hi, I am creating an XMLHTTP object in Firefox and IE8 and i transfer a very large amount of data (json). In Firefox it renders it in 5 seconds, in IE8 it takes 30 seconds. Is there any way to make IE8 XMLHTTP works faster? Here is my code for creating the XHR object: function createRequestObject2() { var http_request = false; if(win...

Strange scrolling behavior in IE with checkboxes in a scrollable div

I have a "multiselect" control that looks like this (sorry for the long id names, they are kinda autogenerated because this whole thing is being generated by a custom tag): <div class="default-skin-outer" id="myMapSelect_multiSelectOuterDiv"> <div class="default-control" id="myMapSelect_multiSelectControlDiv"> <span class="d...

mailto link in internet explorer navigates to dead end

I am using an anchor with mailto, and I am finding that the behavior is extremely unrefined. <a id="Help" href="mailto:[email protected]">Questions</a> when I do this in IE8, I find that in some locations, the windows asks if it can open outlook, you say yes, and it opens a new email message and sets the To: section. It also leaves...

How to test my application on older version of IE?

I have installed IE8 on my system. I usually test my application on this browser, but the problem arises when i got to know that the client is using IE7. Now how can i test my application on IE7? One possible solution is to have dual booting on my system. So on version of Windows i can have IE7 and on another i can have IE8. But i real...

Font Size Problem With Internet Explorer 8 While Printing

Hi, I have a invoice page in my app which Customers open and print it. But I have a problem that, When this page is printed with Internet Explorer 8 with compability mode, the page is printed out with very large text size. You can see the a sample of my page in the link below. When you open with IE8 it seems normal, but when you print...

IE8 & ASP.Net Forms Authentication Cookies fail when opening multiple browsers

I have the code below on a login page. I'm using this to set the login timeout by customer. In IE8 I'm running into the problem that if a user opens another browser window, then logs out in the first window, when they relog back in they get bounced back to the login after a single page (every time). If they don't open another browser, e...

Problem with jQuery in IE8 with Fancybox

I recently aquired an old website (we're talking tables, image maps, you name it). I was asked to make an old link to a Flash gallery into a lightbox. I simply used a javascript: openLightbox() on the gallery link (top right corner). I know, I know, but it doesn't seem out of place on this site. Anyway, I also include a JavaScript file...

How to create an IE8 add-on that adds an X-Forwarded-For header

I have several users coming from different places into a terminal server and browsing my site from the server. The problem is that i need to log what ip-address the user is actually coming from, not the ip for terminal server. I have full control over the terminal-server so I was thinking that some sort of add-on to IE8 on the server cou...

Calling a submit() within an inline frame returns an object error on Windows 7 only. XP and Vista fine. IE8.

We have an application that we use an inline frame to submit data to a Notes server. A document.forms[0].submit(0) call is done in the frame, however, on Windows 7 IE8 machines, it results an object error. Our XP and Vista machines with IE8 work fine. Does Windows 7 work differently than XP and Vista even though they are all IE8? ...

Fancybox gets javascript "not implemented" error in IE8 compatibility mode

When doing a modal pop up using jquery.fancybox-1.2.6.js it works on every platform I have tried except IE8 when set to compatibility mode. When the modal tries to display I get a javascript "not implemented" error on the page that keeps the modal from ever popping up. It gives the line number (line 207) the error occurs on in jquery.f...

Radio button formatting in IE8 (not displaying correctly)

I'm having a problem with getting my radio buttons laid out (and checkboxes) correctly in IE8 .. Firefox, Chrome, Opera all working however .. Here is a screenshot of the problem The code is below: <label for="AdditionalResponses_0__Response" id="AdditionalResponses_0__Response_Label">Single answer</label> <div class="row " id="Add...

jQuery dynamic form creation in IE8 not working with large amounts of data

At work, we have a report that is generated with IP's in it. There is a link you can click on in that report that will open a new window and call a script which brings up a google map with pin points to where each IP originates from. Depending on the report, it can return a lot of IP's (around 150 at times). So, in order for this to wor...

IE8 and P3P problems again,

Have been browsing across the net, and seems everyone who got into this mess, really slogged to get out of it,... and now my turn! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/999534/ie-p3p-iframe-and-blocked-cookies-works-until-page-host-page-has-personal-info been reading alot, and i have a very simple p3p policy here: http: // bit.ly/cCyGi5 ...

Developer tools, browser mode - setting IE7 and IE8 simulateneously for different windows

Is it possible to have two windows of IE8, one in IE8 browser mode and another one in IE7? When I work with IE, I don't want all my windows to be affected when I change the mode to test a specific page in IE7. ...

Why do some Iframes applications Work in IE8 and others dont

I have a simple scenario below it works in XP ie6 but doesn't work in Windows 7 IE8.. <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7"/> </head> <body> <iframe src="http://m.dabr.co.uk" width="800" Height="600" /> </body> </html> Why? and how do i fix it? ...

Why is my HTTP_USER_AGENT not always the same?

When I print my ENV{'HTTP_USER_AGENT'} at the beginning of each of my perl pages, sometimes it says I'm using IE7 and other times it says I'm using IE8. Any idea why? Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CL...

Invalid procedure call or argument IE issue when iterating through document.styleSheets using $.each()

I've written this code that iterates over all global style sheet rules and stores them in an array/object. I use this dictionary-like object later to change global rules rather than setting styles on individual elements. Following code breaks in IE8 but works fine in Firefox3.7 and Chrome4. var allRules; $(function() { var fileRul...

IE8 duplicates text in wrapping <pre> tags

I have a webpage where I put a text into a "pre" tag that is inside a "div" that resizes with the window size. If the "div" is so small that the text in the "pre" overflows horizontally, I want the text to wrap at a word break. Here is the html that demonstrates the problem: <html> <head> <script type='text/javascript' src='http://ajax...