internet-explorer-8

Using print css, image added before:body not showing in Internet Explorer 8

I am using a separate print css on our website. It's been requested that we have our logo at the top of printed pages. This is the code I'm using for print.css: body:before { content: url(../images/logo.gif); } This works on Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera ... and of course you know what's coming next. It doesn't work in Internet E...

MSIEs WebBrowser control hosted in winforms app runs in compatibility mode

I'm hosting MSIE in a winforms form. Unfortunately it insists on running in compatibility mode regardless of if I give it a page that runs in IE8 mode in stand-alone IE. The effect of that is that some content that renders correctly in stand-alone MSIE gets completely mis-aligned and messed up in the hosted control. Besides document typ...

How to debug a IE8 client-side issues for a website?

One of my website's users is experiencing Javascript problems with his IE8/WinXP setup, with code execution apparently aborting halfway through, but there are no alert boxes or other hints as to why and I'm unable to replicate the problem locally. How can I get any information out of his system, so I can start debugging this? Just figu...

Padding issues IE8 v IE7

I've read a bunch of previous posts dealing with the padding problem I'm experiencing between IE8 and earlier versions (IE7,6). I already tried resetting my CSS as mentioned previously, but no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! The issue is best illustrated with screenshots (see below), but in the css I'v...

Is it possible to target IE8's compatibility view in CSS?

Is this possible? I'd of assume that compatibility view is much like the older IE's, so I tried <!--[if lt IE 8]> css goes here <![endif]--> but it doesn't work. ...

IE8 Standards mode JQuery illogic

I have a JQuery (using JQuery 1.4.2) problem that exhibits only in IE8 in standards mode, on one specific DOM element but not on other nearly identical dom ellements. The best example of why it makes no sense is below: $('span.error:visible')[0].style.display The above piece of code returns "none" which unless i am having some sort o...

How to handle wizard by WATIN in IE8

I am using WATIN Version(1.3.0) I am in a situation that when i click on a node ,a Wizard appear. That wizard contain several controls(checkboxes,buttons and TextFields) and it has many screens(when next button is pressed , the next screen appear) but i am unable to handle it. I have apply the following techniques but failed I have u...

CSS Compatibility between IE8, Chrome, Firefox and Safari

Hi, I am writing a JSP page. I need to have a table. One of the statement is: where recordTr_SubGroup is in a file style.css .recordTr_SubGroup { background-color:#81BEF7; cursor: default; } I intend to highlight the row with the color. But finally, it happens correctly only in IE8. Firefox, Chrome and Safari cannot produce ...

onkeydown crossbrowser on IFRAME?

Hello, before to post i try to search a solution in this site and by google but with now luck. I have a issue with IE8, this code below add on the fly an IFRAME and work fine in Chrome, Firefox and IE7. The problem is the keyHandler() function that is not triggered only in IE8. What is the best solution to attach an event crossbrowser...

IE 7 or 8 Continuously Attempts to Load Background Image

Hello, I've only seen this happen when testing in IE 7 or 8 from a Windows Server 2008 R2 box. I've tested on Windows 7 and it works fine. Other browsers are fine. So I have a very simple bare bones test page with a link to an external stylesheet that sets a background image on the body (could be a div too). If there is a ul, ol or tab...

Two dimensions jquery sortable retrives a bug in IE.

I have two dimensions sorting bug in IE8 and below. IE just doesn't know to handle this thing. As you can see, there are two levels of sorting items. Two dimensions. In all of the browsers this thing works perfect. Only IE get crazy. My code $("#experienciasProfissionais").sortable({ placeholder: 'ui-state-highlight', cur...

How to find out what is causing "An add-on for this website failed to run." on my OWN website?

Hi all I am getting this error in IE8 (Windows 7 Professional 64 bit) for my own website/code: An add-on for this website failed to run. Check the security settings in Internet Options for potential conflicts. I have disabled all Add-ons, set the security zone to 'Low' and I still get this error. I am using jquery and script...

Layout / Javascript issues with Internet Explorer 8

I'm using the Facebook async javascript loader to load the new JS SDK (all.js). I want to load a set of html via AJAX and then parse the result. Not surprisingly it works great in Firefox and Chrome but IE mangles the result where a profile pic appears to be set to float over the other fields and I've got three other divs (status-conte...

Flash panel & JavaScript 'mega-menu' lag/delay in MSIE?

Team, thank you all in advance for your input on this. The client is experiencing an issue that we have not been able to recreate Site: www.pebblebeach.com Issue: Client is experiencing an extended lag/delay in loading the ‘mega-menu’ on the homepage. The mega-menu sits on top a large Flash panel (roughly 1 Meg). Seems to only be an i...

IE 7 CSS Issues

Okay, I'll be the first to admit that i'm quite terrible when it comes to css, but I try... :D I have this JS Function which I use to create rounded corners using images, instead of the standard div in div in div way. I know there are better ways, but this is how i've done it: function applyHorizontalImageCornersSpecific(div, left, midd...

Webpage design: how does one translate margin or border values like "medium", "thin", etc. into numbers?

I am trying to develop a webpage containing 2 tables whose column widths should be in sync (i.e. column widths can vary dynamically based on the tables' content but the corresponding columns'widths in both tables are to be kept the same so columns match up with each other). For the correct calculation I need to take borders, margins, pa...

How to get around IE8 32k limit on data:uri on base64 encode?

I need to send an html response to the browser containing a 1920x1080 png. It's a screenshot taken by an html query. I encode the image in base64 and sends it embedded as an text/html content-type. Something simple like : <HTML><HEAD>Whatever</HEAD><BODY><img src="data:image/png;base64,data"/></BODY></HTML> It works fine on FF and Ch...

jQuery 1.4.2 Using .delegate() on a change event for a doropdown list

My problem is that I am not sure how to use .delegate for the following scenario: our application has a voting system to which several rounds or steps can be added. every time a new step is added there is a list of options that defines how the round/step is to be won. <select class="listOfOptions"> <option value="U">Unanimous</option...

Unable to set selection in select drop-down with javascript in IE8

Given the the following javascript function, function switch_plug_drop_down(plug_id) { selector = document.getElementById('group_1'); if (plug_id == "1") {selector.options['product_253'].selected = true;} if (plug_id == "2") {selector.options['product_217'].selected = true;} if (plug_id == "3") {selector.options[...

How can I change WebBrowser1 rendering mode programmatically?

Ok so i know how to do it. I already have. Problem is I did it manually. So my question is how to create/edit the registry key programmatically. I'm using vb.net but can understand C#. I've read some tuts but never got them to work.....i create open a new key but i think the problem is editing it. Any help would be appreciated. They reg...