internet-explorer-8

Using xmlhttprequest in IE only includes the contents of the body tag

When I try to get the contents of a htm file into a div using a xmlhttprequest object in Firefox it includes everything, but in IE it only includes the contents of the body tag. In other words it ignores all the styling (in the head tag) of the page, rendering it ugly. Is it possible to get the full page when using xmlhttprequest in in...

Jquery adding many checkbox values in IE8 very slow

I've been looking for a better way to count values of selected checkboxes in IE8, because at the moment it's painfully slow. My issue is: I have 60 checkboxes arranged in a grid Each checkbox has 4 values (each value represents a market segment) The user can check any of the checkboxes I need a running count of the totals for each segm...

IE8 and JQuery's trim()

Hello all, I am making use of trim() like so: if($('#group_field').val().trim()!=''){ Where group_field is an input element of type text. This works in Firefox but when I try it on IE8 it gives me this error: Message: Object doesn't support this property or method When I remove the trim(), it works fine on IE8. I thought the way I...

ASP.NET Postback problems in IE8

Hello All, I am working locally on an ASP.NET site and am experiencing problems with postbacks in IE8. I have a page with a repeater that builds a table and each row has a LinkButton on it that is used to delete that row. In FireFox and Chrome, the button works as expected - the forms posts back and all the values from the form are ava...

jQuery UI Show Method fails in IE

I'm using jQuery 1.4.2 and jQuery UI 1.8.4, on the latest versions of IE and Firefox, under Windows XP. Firefox is fine with the following code: var $container = jQuery('<div></div>'); jQuery('body').append($container); $container.show('size', {to: {width: 640} }, 'slow'); $container.show('size', {to: {height: 500} }, 'slow', function()...

Joomla rt_populus template problem in IE8

Hello guys, I'm using template populus from RT and when I load in IE all text font colour is white. I tried everything and I just cant solve this problem, anyone have idea? ...

IE 8 - session variables are lost while window.open

Hi, I encountered with a weird problem at one of our machine. Machine has: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (6.1.7600 Build 7600) Internet Explorer 8 (8.0.7600.16385) Consider below case: Page1 renders an anchor link with window.open("page2.aspx",some attributes etc) When user clicks on above link, page2.aspx opens but no sessions ...

What is keeping the users logged in after cookies are cleared in IE?

I'm having an issue where even after deleting the users cookies they are still logged in to my ASP.NET MVC site (IIS 6). HOWEVER, this only happens on my clients machine, my IE 8 on Win7 does NOT have this issue and the normal log out method works fine. It seems they need to close out the browser before it will release them from being ab...

Opacity in IE8 works on <p> but not on <a>

I have a problem with IE8 where I cannot make <a> elements transparent. I've found these related SO questions but I haven't had any luck with the answers provided there: Opacity CSS not working in IE8 Opacity in web pages? I've tried "giving layout", by using zoom: 1;, but it hasn't helped. Here is my test CSS, lifted from the exampl...

jQuery: problem under IE8: setting table's column width

Hi, Following problem: I'm having a table with 3 columns and I'm using jQuery to set the column widths by code, like: var tr = $("tr",myTable).eq(0); var cells = $("td",tr); cells.eq(0).width(100); cells.eq(1).width(150); cells.eq(2).width(300); Works nice under Firefox, but IE8 acts very strange: The 2nd column shows up on screen w...

IE8 support of (html5) ajax navigation

Is it true that to enjoy Ajax navigation IE8 support only window.location.hash mechanism but not window.history ?? Those 2 API are described officially here but it isn't said which of them is supported in IE8 ...

IE 8, object required javascript function

Hello, I have been looking all the day about my strange problem. I have a page, which is loading dynamically content via ajax (with jQuery), but I think it's not a jQuery problem. The dynamic page contains a javascript function, let's call it "myTestFunction()", without any parameters. After document.ready (jQuery) or at the end o...

jqGrid columns do not expand to setGridWidth after 1 column hidden in IE8 only

I've a jqGrid v3.7.2, after hiding a column using .jqGrid('hideCol', infoName); and setting the grid width using .setGridWidth(setWidth, true) The columns do not expand to fill the table width in IE8 only. The table width is correct. The tbody/col widths comes short. Any way to solve this problem via CSS? Or is there another meho...

IE IFrame - stale references

I have 2 iframes on a page, a navigation and a detail. The navigation iframe has paging/searching/etc.. functionality that can cause the detail to refresh with new url parameters. After the detail iframe loads, the navigation iframe needs to perform some dom manipulations on elements it already had in memory. For example: jQuery(searc...

Table cell loses border when css gradient filter is applied in IE8

I found the css border on the table cell is lost when applying css gradient filter at the same time. It seems that the gradient effect overrides the border. Is it a browser bug or am I missing something here? The style is defined like this: .c7 { color: #000000; filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient(GradientType=0...

Why does IE8 freeze when running this jQuery--IE7, FF, etc. are fine?

I have a form with a select field. Depending upon the selection, an optional second field (different for each selection) should appear to gather further information. I had a script I wrote in jQuery to do this and I converted it quickly to a plugin (with the intent to add more of my commonly used form related code to the plugin at a la...

How can I prevent a form reset from clearing my <input type="text"> element?

If I put a form control on the page with a value already set, triggering the containing form's reset functionality will return the value to the original value at the time when the page was loaded. However, if I create a form control using javascript, and append it to the DOM, the form control will be erased and made blank when the form ...

IE8 rendering on each keystroke in textarea gets slower as page size expands

I have a page using JQuery and I've implemented infinite scrolling on a div. There is a text area on the page. I've noticed that as more rows get added to a table in the scrollable div performance of the page gets worse. You can really tell when the page size is large and you try to type anything in the text area because there is a large...

-ms-filter rounded corners CSS3 effect in IE?

I am using -ms-filter to get shadow effects working in IE. Is there a filter that I can use for rounded corners in IE? I do not want to use htc files. Thanks! ...

IE8 window.open SSL Certificate issue

I have a web based application that uses a self signed certificate. When you log into the application, you have to accept the certificate. This is a pain, but..we are OK with that for the time being, and everything is fine. When you click on the help link, it uses java script window.open to open the help in a new window. This all works...