internet-explorer

JQuery Cycle Plugin, SIFR and PNG Fix - strange behaviour in IE

Hi, I am using the JQuery Cycle plugin to flick through a bunch of divs with content in them. Everything is fine in FF and Chrome but in IE 6/7 the SIFR titles do not appear in any divs apart from the first in the cycle. Does anyone know what could be causing this?, I have notice that when I switch of the belated_png fix for IE6 every...

IE problem loading sites when debugging with Visual Studio

Quite frequently when running debug mode in Visual Studio 2008 on XP, IE 7 starts up but never loads the web page. It says 'Connecting to site 127.0.0.1' but never actually opens my web page. When this problem happens I'm unable to load any external websites either in that instance of IE (even in a new tab). I can't even open the 'About ...

is DISPID_VALUE reliable for invokes on IDispatchs from scripts?

Continuing from this question, i am confused whether DISPID_VALUE on IDispatch::Invoke() for script functions and properties (JavaScript in my case) can be considered standard and reliable for invoking the actual function that is represented by the IDispatch? If yes, is that mentioned anywhere in MSDN? Please note that the question is ...

Slideshow2 Mootools problem in IE

Hi, im trying to implement Slideshow2 but I have problems with IE, as you can see in this test: http://kb.muscarienlinea.com/mo/ the Slideshow works ok in FF and Chrome, but is not working on IE7 What im missing? Thxs :) ...

Image doesn't render when width and height are defined in percentage with <table> parent element

I'm trying to scale down an image by percentage and this renders correctly in Firefox, but not in Internet Explorer. The img tag needs to be inside a table. <TABLE> <TR> <TD> <img src="test.gif" width="60%" height="60%"> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> Is there a better way to do this so it works in both browsers? ...

DIV disappears on IE7 and IE6 when using margin 'auto' in a DIV inside li item

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;&lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; <head> <title>Test</title> <style type="text/css" media="screen"> div.menu {position: relative; width: 600px; overflow: hidden;} ul.menu {display: block...

IE doesn't run Javascript when you click 'back' button

I've built a shop with tons of JS running. One of the pieces of the cart, is a zip code field which is required to calculate shipping cost. This works fine going through the cart. Now clicking checkout takes you to paypal. If you click back, in IE the setup scripts (like clear the zip field) aren't fired. They work in Safari & FF, but ...

Info window go gray in IE but not Chrome?

I built a mapping application at http://gisnet2.cstx.gov/gisweb/base/base.htm and when I click on and use the Identify tool, the results gray out after the second click, but only when I use an IE browser (7 or 8). Anybody know why IE would do this? The source code is really long, but you can find the questionable code in the doIdenti...

Responding to the onmousemove event outside of the browser window in IE

In Internet Explorer 7 body onmousemove or document.onmousemove events only seem to fire while the mouse is inside the browser window, not when it's outside. Yet in Firefox the onmousemove event is called correctly when I move outside of the browser window. How can I setup an event to be called outside of the browser window in IE? Goog...

multiple image maps not working in firefox

Hi, I got stuck again between browsers compatability issues, what I was trying todo is to link different parts of image using image maps. I am using two image maps for respective images. using two maps MAP1 and MAP2, MAP1 works fine in all the browsers but MAP2 didnt worked in firefox,chrome,safari. Both maps works fine in Internet...

Why is one installation of IE8 (unexpectedly) loading pages from cache, while others are not?

I have website that is ASP.NET with Forms Authentication, clicking the logout button does correctly call FormsAuthenication.SignOut() so it invalidates the cookie. All machines in the office are using IE8 and work fine, just like Firefox. But one installation of IE8 will load cached copies of authenticated pages even after logging out w...

Error with IE and form data when clicking back

Say if I am on page 1 , I enter my form data and go to page 2 , But wait I forgot something and I need to go back. FireFox and Safari ask me if I want to resend my form data. But IE being IE it just goes back and does not show the page. Is there away around this when I click back it keeps the data and the page appears. Sorry I cannot...

Is there a way to get pixel data from Internet Explorer?

Excanvas.js allows IE to work with the canvas tag, but the getImageData method is not supported. Is there any way at all to get the value of a specified pixel in IE (img or VML or whatever other ways bitmaps from a server can be displayed in IE)? I'm assuming there's not. I'm trying to get rid of a server hit to improve responsiveness ...

c# using SHDocVw.InternetExplorer. How can I find the URL of the last link clicked? Or the most recent get request URL?

I am accessing the SHDocVw.InternetExplorer from the SHDocVw.ShellWindowsClass(). I can see the page that the browser instance is currently on (the LocationURL property), but what I really need is the last get request that was done for the browser. My specific need is that my application was just launched to handle a file that was down...

Cross browser way of setting IFrame to "about:blank"?

Does anybody know a proper, cross-browser way to "empty" an IFrame? Is "about:blank" recognized without error across all browsers? Is it valid to give an IFrame an empty src? ...

How to test MSN Explorer?

A client is seeing bugs on their website using MSN Explorer. I can't reproduce those bugs with IE7 or any other browser, and I can't use MSN Explorer, because it requires a subscription to MSN. What is MSN Explorer based on? I assumed it was exactly the same as IE7 with a different interface, from wikipedia and the user-agent string. ...

Where is this extra scroll bar in IE7 coming from?

I have a CSS layout that simulates a fixed-frame page, with a header and a left side menu, and a content pane. In Firefox, this works fine, but in Internet Explorer 7, there is an additional scroll bar along the right-hand side. If you move the extra scroll bar with the mouse, it will scroll just the header off the top of the page. ...

IE Issue With Input Box Size

I am using Dreamweaver to make a HTML page. I have a textbox for the user to type into. When I change the following: <input type="text" id="email" name="email" size="40px" /> when I view it in Firefox, the box size changes, but in IE it says at the default size by the look of it. Why is IE being such a pain... ...

conditional formatting: I want to use javascript for rounded corner but only if it's in IE

I use -moz-border-radius and -webkit-border-radius for making rounded corner. However as we know IE 7 doesn't support that. What I would like to do is to basically use standard for firefox and Safari however for IE I would like to use javascript. by using this http://www.editsite.net/blog/rounded%5Fcorners.html My question is how can i...

JavaScript doesn't work in IE: Sudoku Puzzle

http://home.earthlink.net/~benfranq/Sudoku.html Perhaps somebody can tell me why it doesn't work in Internet Explorer In other browsers, it seems to work fine. I've tried adding semicolons to every line, but it still doesn't work. This isn't my page, a friend asked me to figure out why it isn't working in IE but ok in other browsers....