internet-explorer-8

Hosting IE 8 In WinForms and Opening a PDF

We have a form that hosts the WebBrowser control. That is the only control on the form. We pass the form the file path of a temporary PDF file and it does: WebBrowser1.Navigate(Me._PathToPdf) When the form is closing, it navigates away from the PDF file: WebBrowser1.Hide() WebBrowser1.Navigate("about:blank") Do Until WebBrowser1.Re...

How to Target IE7 IE8 with CSS valid code.?

I want to Target with CSS valid code. to IE7 and IE8, Please Give me some Information about this Issue and CSS code should be W3C Valid. IE8 is here. Some time we fix for IE7 but not work in IE8. ...

Jquery Ui Sortable showing broken image in IE8.

I have a query sortable collection of images, ie. the items is set to img (due to the fact it is in a tab control and is a horizontal list, cannot be sorted on the list items, I just can't get it to work), which works perfectly everywhere except for IE8 (even in standards compliance mode), where the placeholder shows a broken image. Is...

Why will this div/img not center in IE8?

I have a very simple holding page I built centering a div, anchor and image. For some reason it will not center in IE8 (either mode), and I am hoping someone can tell me why. I haven't had a chance to try it in other IE browsers. I have tried this in Chrome and FF3 where it works OK. <html> <head> <title>Welcome</title> <style> #...

Stop IE8 message "web page stopped responding" while debugging

IE8 has a feature that pops up a dialog box that informs me when a web page stops responding that's a bit annoying when debugging as it steals focus from visual studio. Is there a way to disable that feature? ...

How can I show a message to IE6/IE7 browsers to upgrade to IE8 and have IE8 not show the IE7 warning?

I want to only allow users with IE8 (not IE6, IE7) or another browser to access my site when logged in. I followed: http://code.google.com/p/ie6-upgrade-warning/ But I also wanted it to not allow IE7 users to use the main site when logged in (they can view public pages.) The reason is that the main web application has a lot of JavaScri...

IE8 Local HTML File - "System cannot find the specified file."

We're writing a Windows client application in VB.NET. On the first launch of the application it loads a local HTML file "User Guide" for the user to get acquainted with the new software. There is also a menu option to access the content which also produces the same error. Whenever the page is launched, a dialog box appears stating that "...

IE8 Developer Tools not able to select?

I've grown very fond of the Devloper Tool in IE8 (pressing F12) but for some reason, it is no longer functioning, pressing F12 only results in the selection tool opening, but no interaction with the page I opened the tool in is happening, usually a blue border is surrounding your "selected" element on the page, this functionality is howe...

IE8 issue: div breaks line even though its floated

This looks like IE8 issue. I have two divs that are side by side because I float one of them to left. However, if the content inside of right div gets too big for the window, the right div breaks line and goes under left div. How do I make both divs stay on same level, side by side? Here is the code: css: <style type="text/css"> ...

How do I set X-UA-Compatible header to IE=EmulateIE7 for IE 8 browsers using Apache 2.0?

I am able to set this header X-UA-Compatible "IE=EmulateIE7" using the following directive in my Apache 2.0 httpd.conf file: <Location /mypath> Header set X-UA-Compatible "IE=EmulateIE7" </Location> How can I configure Apache to only set this header for IE 8 browsers? ...

Javascript blur() command in IE8 on Vista doesnt work

I have a project that pops up a window with a message for the user. It is displayed for 10 seconds and then is sent to the background using the javascript "self.blur()" command. I dont want to close it as it has information that the user might need to see agian. This currently works for IE7/IE8/FF2/FF3 on windows XP, but on Vista it doe...

clientHeight/clientWidth returning different values on different browsers

The properties: document.body.clientHeight, document.body.clientWidth return different values on IE7, IE8 and Firefox: IE 8: document.body.clientHeight : 704 document.body.clientWidth : 1148 IE 7: document.body.clientHeight : 704 document.body.clientWidth : 1132 FireFox: document.body.clientHeight : 620 document.body.clientWidth : ...

IE8 stalls after 302 in new window

My client's website opens external links in new windows (with target="_blank"). The links are also routed through a logger which responds with a 302 redirect to the desired page. For example, instead of <a href="http://stackoverflow.com"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt; We have <a href="/redirect?to=http://stackoverflow.com" target="_blank">...</a>...

IE8 won`t submit on enter when you have multiple forms

if you have 3 forms (shown below) and you set two of forms to not to display (display:none;) and you use javascript to toggle through each form, the forms that were set to hidden, when you set them to visible and you try to submit a form by pressing enter, it won`t submit. the only form that will submit if the first form that is visibl...

IE8 simple alert is failing!?

Why isn't the following piece of code working in IE8? <select> <option onclick="javascript: alert('test');">5</option> Quite bizarre - no alert is shown in IE8. I do not see the error icon in the left corner as well. Of course it works in FF and Opera. Any ideas? ...

Internet Explorer 8 Developer Tools not displaying

Within the last day, in Internet Explorer 8, the developer tools window will not show up. When I hit F12 or use menu Tools -> Developer Tools I get the Developer Tools entry in the Task Bar but the actual window will not show up. It has been running fine for a month or so. I have tried rebooting with no luck. ...

IE8 hangs when more than 4 async XmlHttpRequests are triggered concurrently

for (var i = 0; i < 5; ++i) { var xhr; if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { xhr = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); } xhr.open('GET', '/Test/LongOperation?p=' + new Date()); xhr.send(''); } This is only a demo (not live code) but it illustrates the core probl...

Using Run As to run multiple instance of IE 8 doesn't seem to work

In the past, I've used the runas commandline to launch another instance if IE on a secondary account for testing, since our in-house web-app application uses windows authentication to identify a user. With the new multi-process model if IE8, this doesn't seem to work. Has anyone seen a workaround for it? ...

How to force IE to reload javascript?

I'm using IE 8 on Vista, and everytime I change a javascript file and then start debugging, I have to hit Ctrl+F5 to have it reload my javascript. Is there any way to make it automatically reload javascript when I start debugging, but not lose the performance gains when just browsing the net? Yeah yeah I know you probably don't like IE,...

IE8 log file?

Is there a way to turn on logging for IE? I'm attempting to trouble shoot an IE8 information bar message that appears for my site only when viewing on windows server 2008. An add-on for this website failed to run. Check the security settings in Internet Options for Potential conflicts. The pages all work as expected and I w...