internet-explorer-8

font size not applied in IE8

Guys, This is driving me mad... I was doing my asp.net sandbox website when out of the blue I start to realize that in IE8 (IE7 compatible view or not) does not show CSS font proper... in the image below I removed all CSS and add only one: body { font-size: 11px; } and this is (sadly) the result: Is there any soul willing to...

removing page scrollbars in IE8 (overflow:hidden not working)

Applying this overflow:hidden; to the body of my document has no effect in IE8. Any ideas why? ...

CakePHP Auth Component "login" Method Failure in IE8 + Safari

I have a method in users_controller.php of my CakePHP project which is used to remotely log a user in through an AJAX call on a WordPress site. The method works flawlessly when called through Firefox, but when I attempt to call it either via AJAX or directly from the browser in IE8 or Safari, it simply will not log in. The Auth->login() ...

Internet Explorer 8 - Session Shared among Explorer Window

IE 8 sharing session among different Explorer Window for same domain. Like if you are a logined at hotmail.com in IE 8, and you have open another explorer window for hotmail.com, you will automatically logined. This was not in IE 7, In IE 7 session has shared in the same explorer tab rather different Explorer Window. Can anyone have a i...

IE8 causing FILE input entry to be blank via SendKeys

Application: HTA (therefore IE) This is an application that uses SendKeys to populate a FILE input field. Issue: File is never uploaded. Description: An offscreen form (invisible to user) uploads a file to the server. The file input is entered via SendKeys (javascript). Appears to be isolated to when IE8 is installed. Does anyo...

Why does Internet Explorer 8 print invisible content?

Hi, please check the HTML code below. The 3rd DIV is partially visible because it is overlayed by the 2nd (which has a white background). All good so far, everything displays correctly in both IE and Firefox. The problem starts when I print the page. In Firefox it prints as displayed on the page. In Internet Explorer 8 it somehow print...

IE8, Flash, and the WinForms WebBrowser Control

I have a WebBrowser control on a Form that is loading a single page with a flash control on it. Since upgrading to IE8 it no longer works. Every time I open my form I get a prompt to install Flash. No matter what I choose to do from there Flash will not start, so my page is busted. Any clues on how to get Flash to work in IE when it ...

Internet Explorer 8 EmulateIE7 Mode not working

I've set up IIS6 to send the following headers Custom Header Name: X-UA-Compatible Custom Header Value: IE=EmulateIE7 that supposed to force IE 8 into IE 7 Compatibility mode. You can read more about it on MSDN . I have noticed by looking in the Developer toolbar that if I have a DTD defined the document mode correctly gets set to ...

jQuery round corner code for IE8 in standards mode?

I need a solution for round corners using javascript with or without jQuery in IE8 standards mode. ...

How can I solve this IE CSS Issue?

Look here (http://www.makeofficebetter.com/comments.htm) for a link to an example of my problem. If you look at that link you'll see that I have a IMG floated left, and a DIV overlaying it. within that div I have 2 more divs. Both should overlay the IMG, but for some reason only the first DIV overlays correctly...and the 2nd does not....

FileUpload control viewed in IE8 doesn't allow user to enter manual path

I have a page with a FileUpload control. In IE7, it allowed file/directory browsing using either the "Browse" button (which brings up a file directory dialog) or by manually typing in a file path. In IE8, the text box portion of the control seems to be disabled and only allows a file to be specified by finding it with the "Browse" button...

IE 8 only has access to session cookies?

Project I'm working on gets cookies from the browser to check for certain things. In FF, Safari, or Chrome, this works fine, but in IE 8 (don't have an earlier version of IE to test and MSFT won't let me uninstall IE 8 and have a working IE 7), the only cookies it sees are the session cookies, not any of the persistent cookies (the ones ...

How to maintain PNG alpha transparency when using "-ms-filter" property

I have the following HTML: <a><img src="myfile.png" /> Some text</a> And this css: a:hover { -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=75)"; filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=75); opacity: .75; } The problem with this occurs in both IE 8 and IE 7. When the PNG image is subject t...

Why does ie8's user agent return 'opera'?

My code at: http://www.mgxvideo.com/mgxcopy-dev/get_browser.php, returns Opera when I run IE8. My source is: <?php $browser = get_browser(null, true); echo $browser['browser']; ?> ...

How to disable autocomplete for passwords in IE8 via GPO?

In IE6 there was a registry key hidden away that would allow you to enable autocomplete but only for usernames, not passwords. This key no longer has any effect in IE8. I can either enable or disable autocomplete for usernames and passwords, but not just one of the two. What I'm looking for is a way to enable autocomplete for username...

Force IE8 Into IE7 Compatiblity Mode

Is there a way to force ie8 into ie7 compatibility mode using .net or javascript? ...

IE Randomly Doesn't Display Images

When I load my site up in IE (I'm using 8 but I've seen this happen on 7 and 6 too) every now any then it will show the "red x" for some images. I know those images exist so I refresh the page. When it renders again those images that had a "red x" are now displaying properly, but other images, even ones that were displaying properly in t...

How do you get WatiN to work on Windows Server 2008 with IE8?

My problem is that I cannot get a simple WatiN test to reliably work on my development machine which is running Windows Server 2008 and IE8. I have seen a couple of good posts on this, but am still having problems. Here are the posts: MSDN Testing Article Stack Overflow - WatiN Second Method Fails The steps in the first article see...

IE8 jQuery FadeTo

HTML markup: <ul id="portfolio"><li class="web"> <span class="info">August 2007 <a href="http://awebsite.com" rel="external">visit</a></span> <a href="/assets/image.jpg" class="fancybox" rel="web"> <img src="/assets/imagelarge.jpg" alt="Rising Star Ranch" /> <span class="title">Some Title</span> Some other text... <...

CSS problem for IE8 running Quirks mode

Hi there. There's some mysterious padding between two images while running in IE8 and Quirks Mode. These two images act as a logo for my prospective website. I have isolated the problem into single html file, http://etcbc.org/ie_problem/ie.html. It's suppose to say "east toronto baptist church". As you can see, there's currently a spac...