internet-explorer

jQuery fadeIn/fadeOut in IE mess the layout

Hi, I have a div which contains multi-columns layout and when I click on a button I want that this div fade out and then clicking on an another button this block would fade in. Simple and it works perfectly on firefox. However when I fade it out inside IE the layout of my columns is modified. It is as if my columns are transformed in n...

/*@cc_on and IE6 detection

When researching JavaScript conditional comments for IE, I stumbled upon @cc_on. This seems to work. However, the wikipedia entry on conditional comments provides the following code for more robust IE detections, specifically IE6: /*@cc_on @if (@_jscript_version > 5.7) document.write("You are using IE8+"); @elif (@_jscri...

print visible screen only

I have an html application running in IE6(yes it has to be 6 for the time being), currently I print a page/report of the application. This report is all html and just uses the browsers built in print functionality. It currently spans more that 1 page i.e. scrolls, and the printing functionality prints the whole page, even what is not v...

Make IE 'follow' FF

Hi, When developing webpages i need to test the layout and functions in both FF and IE. Anybody know of a FF addon or something else where i can make IE follow FF, meaning the if i type or click in FF IE will automatically do the same? ...

"this" keyword in IE

So, I using this snippet <tr onclick="this.toggleClassName('selected')"> on a web page. (a Prototype.js function) It works great. All I do is click on a table row, and it appears to get selected. It works everywhere, except IE and Opera. This is just a convenience, so I don't really care if it works, but in IE it throws an error, and a...

Son of Suckerfish Menu IE6 - menu hiding behind content

Page - http://blu-eye.com/index.html - contains suckerfish menu which is displaying correctly on the rest of the site, except for this page. The menu items are hidden behind the content below. The content below it contains a javascript slider with image and text. I've tried changing the z-indexes on majority of elements, but still havi...

How do you instantiate .NET hosted controls dynamically loaded via JavaScript?

I am trying to load a bunch of .NET hosted controls into a page dynamically using JavaScript to inject OBJECT tags into the HTML. My problem is that the objects do not instantiate, only the static object that is visible on page load will appear. Is there any way to get these objects to load? <h1> Visible static</h1> <div id="st...

IE 7 textarea breaks between words

Hi all, I've got a LAMP site with a form that a user fills out. For some reason if viewing the returned form submission data on IE 7, it's inserting line breaks between each word. It's a pretty basic form with some input elements and a text area. If I submit the form with FF3+, IE8, or safari this isn't happening and everything looks f...

List of everything that doesn't work correclty in quirks mode?

Hi, Does anyone have a complete list of html, javascript, and css that is buggy in quirks mode (particularly IE quirks mode)? I have checked out the quirksmode.org list at http://www.quirksmode.org/css/quirksmode.html but it does not seem to be comprehensive. For example, I've seen some browsers have problems with frames unless you use...

Why does .html work and not innerHTML or appendChild

Hey! I am trying to add an ajax response to a div (it's htmlcode, tables, forms etc). In FF innerHTML works perfectly, but in IE it gives me an unknown error. I tried lot's of stuff, but I only got it working when I added jQuery and ran the .html method on the div I want the code inserted into. Anyone care to explain why this works ...

Trying to create a click method for a div, doesn't work in IE6?

I made a simple div: <div id="foo"></div> and I added a click method to it in jquery $("#foo").click(wow); function wow(){ alert("Message"); } This works fine in Firefox/others, but doesn't work in IE6/IE7? Why? Any specific resources on this? Edit: The Div already exists in the dom, and the jQuery is run on ready, and it still...

Why doesn't this page render correctly in Internet Explorer?

Have a look at this page: http://labs.pieterdedecker.be/hetoog/layout.htm It looks alright in Firefox, but IE messes it up. How come? ...

window.resize event firing in Internet Explorer

As you are aware, in Internet Explorer, the window.resize event is fired when any element on the page is resized. It does not matter whether the page element is resized through assigning/changing its height or style attribute, by simply adding a child element to it, or whatever -- even though the element resizing does not affect the dime...

parsing CSS with Java

I need to parse CSS files in Java, and have tried using the Batik and CSSParser libs with success. The issue I am having is that when I run into IE hacks, I loose the formatting; it appears to me that the DOM used by org.w3c.css.sac won't accommodate the IE Hacks. e.g.- /* The '\' isn't retained */ someselector { padding:...

Why doesn't Internet Explorer render this page smoothly?

Have a look at this page in IE 8: http://labs.pieterdedecker.be/hetoog/layout.htm It looks okay at first, but try hovering over an item and then taking your mouse off the item grid again. Before After Notice how there's a black border on the right of the yellow item. Also, the font looks different. How can I fix this? ...

IFrame with wrong URL - parent page displayes error in IE - how to solve?

I have the following html in a page: <div> <iframe src="http://google.co.in" style="width:200px;height:200px"> </iframe> <iframe src="http://" style="width:200px;height:200px"> </iframe> </div> This page displays correctly in Firefox: But in IE (7 & 8), the whole page gets replace...

Cookies in IE6+, Safari vs. Opera, Firefox (JQuery)

Hi, I have found a weird difference in cookie behavior in IE+Safari/Opera+Firefox while navigating with the 'back' button: in IE and Safari the cookies set on a page get dropped (reverted) when returning to the previous page via the 'back' button, while in Opera and Firefox the new cookies persist. The latter behavior is what I need, b...

Can an IE8 Accelerator be made to launch a process?

I want to create an IE8 Accelerator that will launch Remote Desktop (mstsc) with the hostname being the selected text. But the accelerators I've seen only direct the browser to URLs. Can an Accelerator launch mstsc.exe? ...

Excel VBA and InternetExplorer causing errors on website

I have some "clever" users who have written an excel spreadsheet that automates some of their tasks on our intranet/timesheet. It seems as if the instance of Internet Explorer that is created is not doing everything I expect a browser to do, e.g. set cookies. Is there a way to detect if a user is hitting a web site with a VBA com object ...

Disabled controls in Firefox

First of all in my custom webpage project, i use a master-page. What drives me nuts, is that hyperlinks (2 of 5 in a child page) seem to be disabled while debugging with firefox (V3.5.5). I face the same problem with a radio-button-list which exists within an asp wizard control. It seems to be disabled, (Does not accept focus). What i...