internet-explorer-8

Works in firefox but not IE8

This is working fine in firefox but only closes the first page and then breaks in IE8. Firebug in IE8 says that x.item(o) is null. I can't figure out why this works in firefox but not IE. Thanks for any help. pager(x=document.getElementsByName("pg1")); function pager( x ) { var curr = document.getElementById('showing'); $(curr...

How do you get the File:// protocol to work in IE8?

I am running a website on my local machine ("http://localhost/asdf") and trying to get some file:// protocol links to work. In reality I'm trying to open a folder, not a specific file, but I can't get either to work. I've put localhost in my "trusted zone", I've tried every combo of "file" ,":", some number of "/" and then a whole bunc...

Second CSS class not working in IE8.

I have the following div being rendered to the client, but on IE, the checked-yes class is ignored. If I view the target element in the 'Developer Tools', that class is completely missing from the Style panel. The shift-item-present class is attached server side, and the checked-yes class client side, depending on the present attribute...

Internet Explorer discards cookie when printing?

I have an unusual issue with this printing under IE7/8 (likely 6 as well). My page contains a dynamically rendered graph. The contents of the graph are determined by the identity of the user who visits the page. The page is not available without prior authentication. The page loads and renders correctly in IE7/8. However, the graph doe...

jQuery doesn't work in IE8?

Hi, I am working on a site here: mfm.treethink.net All the jquery works fine in Firefox, Chrome and Safari but on IE8 it gives me errors and the banner at the top doesn't work (which uses the crossSlide jQuery plugin) and as well the image rollovers don't work with the colour change. IE8 is telling me that the errors are on lines 53, 1...

jQuery object IE8

So i'm trying to render a template with trimpath in IE8, but when passing the template (a jquery object) there is nothing in it. This all works in chrome,safari,firefox. So to give an example: HTML: <div id="flickr_image_gallery_preview_template"><!-- <img id="flickr_detail_button" src="/devwidgets/flickr/images/external_link.gif...

CSS rule ignored in IE8 Quirks Mode.

I have a ul/li based side menu, styled with two CSS rules, the following of them is ignored by IE8 Quirks mode, and I assume IE6: ul { padding-left: 15px; } I can reproduce the problem in FF by removing this rule completely. I have also tried using jQuery to apply the rule, with no change in IE8: $("ul.menu-class").find("ul").css("p...

z-index not working in IE8 with the sortable jQuery plugin

I'm working with the jQuery Sortable plugin to drag and drop images from one box to another box. This works fine in ff,chrome and safari but it fails in IE8. It seems that when you start dragging that the image is send to the back. I've tried to solve this by adding the z-index option to the sortable plugin, i've tried appending it to a ...

Get scrollheight cross-browser through Selenium

Hi, I'm working on a project which is using Selenium and I'd like to try to get the full web page height cross-browser and cross-platform. IE8 is being stubborn as always, is there anybody who has an idea of how to solve this? The problem: When you scroll down a page for e.g. 500px and you keep doing this until the bottom of the page, t...

Where do I need to set my P3P header to bypass IE8 blocking cookies?

I'm including a javascript file on my page that has a Set-Cookie header. However, the cookie is being blocked by IE8. Where do I set my P3P response header to prevent IE8 from blocking the cookie, on the javascript file request or on my web page? ...

Why html frame behave differently in Firefox and IE8 ?

I use html frame on my webiste, it's been running for I while, usually I only use Firefox to surf the net, my site looks and functions ok, but today I suddenly found IE8 has a problem with the frame on my site, if I click on the top menu items, it's supposed to display the content in the lower part of the frame, it does this correctly in...

<a> with an inner <span> not triggering :active state in IE 8

I want to style the :active state of a button that is represented by an <a> tag. The <a> tag has an inner <span> (beacuse I want to add an icon to this button). I notice the :active state is triggered properly in everything but Internet Explorer 8. In IE 8, it appears that the area around the <span> (the <a>’s padding) triggers the :act...

window .open is not opening on page load in ie8

Hi unable to open window.open on page load in ie8 If I use window.location its not opening in new page please help me out of this. ...

Dev Tools in IE6

I would like to use dev tools like FireBug or the elements built into IE8 for my IE6 testing. IE9 would provide this. Before creating an IE9 environment, I thought I would check here. Do any of you have a solution for this type of problem? ...

Error in IE8 Browser -> Message: Object doesn't support this property or method

Hi All, In my joomla project(http://crystalwrightlive.com) home page there is one sliding banner section, but this banner not working in IE browser (working fine in FF browser) and showing following error: Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6; InfoPath.2) Timestamp: Sat...

Does IE8 in compatibility mode display web-pages like IE7?

hi, is debugging in compatibility mode in IE8 exactly the same than debugging in IE7 ? do the websites display exactly the same ? So I don't need IE7 for testing if I have IE8 ? thanks ...

simplemodal contact form does not close after sending mail in ie8

hi, i am using the simplemodal contact form for my website. it works perfectly on safari, firefox and opera on mac os, and firefox and chrome on windows. the only issue i have is with ie8. when i click the "send" button the mail is actually sent but i get an error message (alert window with "unknown" in it) and then everything seems to ...

ie8 playing funny with list-style-position: inside

Ok, So problem here... when using list-style-position:inside in IE8 the first like is indented but every line after that is not. So the new lines appear under the bullet. This is fine, but when I use a list with that css applied with an a tag within the li then the text automatically gets pushed to the second line, and the first line i...

colorbox in IE8 throwing a wobbly

hi in FF and chrome, safari it is of course totally fine.. IE8 however, in compatability mode or not, doesnt load the overlay over the top (it just sits a t the top, scrolling the content down - although i guess this is because the overlay is at the top of the markup).. and it doesnt show the image im attempting to show , but shrinks the...

Overflow: hidden bug in IE8

I've built a Javascript carousel that scrolls a UL inside a holder DIV with overflow set to hidden when the user clicks a left or right arrow. The HTML is as follows: <div id="promo-carousel-holder"> <ul> <li class="promo-item"> <img src="_includes/images/promo-tyr...