internet-explorer

Using jQuery animate CSS opacity fade and @font-face gives Internet Explorer very ugly font rendering?

Hello. I'm working on a site with HTML/CSS/jQuery that is trying to act like a Flash site. I've had to use @font-face to get the desired font to work. The client wants the fade in of text and content too (so it looks like the Flash file). The problem is, the font's look jagged and ugly in Internet Explorer. My CSS for the font face loo...

in Internet Explorer, pasteHTML causes unexpected behavior?

I have the following HTML w/Javascript code (note: this only works in Internet Explorer): <script type='text/javascript'> function changeIt() { var startTag = "<span class='h' id='123abc'>"; var endTag = "</span>"; var htmlStr = document.selection.createRange().htmlText; document.selection.createRange().pasteHTML(startTag + htmlStr...

My flash video object works fine in Mozilla browsers but not in IE (I'm using IE7)

A simple flash video doesn't appear in IE. I've looked at answers to the same problem by NineBerry, however, I've tried those suggestions without luck. You can see the page at http://sunscreenwear.com/children/media/mulholland_intro_slideshow.html. The media folder contains the following files: mulholland_intro_slideshow.flv, mulhollan...

Input boxes with transparent background are not clickable in IE8

I have an absolutely positioned input box in a form. The input box has transparent background: .form-page input[type="text"] { border: none; background-color: transparent; /* Other stuff: font-weight, font-size */ } Surprisingly, I cannot select this input box by clicking on it in IE8. It works perfectly in Fir...

IE javascript redirection

I have a javascript function which redirects user to a diff page. It goes like this... redirect : function(url) { if(!url) return false; alert(url); if (this.browserClass.isW3C) //IE 6.X comes here { window.location.href = url; } else if(this.browserClass.isIE4) { window.location.href...

Automated tool/APIs to fill up web forms

I am looking for a tool or API/library to automatically fill up a webform with data. I have a text file with 100s of records that I need to enter into a webform. I tried searching for some tool or browser APIs so that I can copy text to a clipboard and from the clipboard to the webform; but the search results are polluted by automated We...

Internet explorer file download error while doing "readfile" - PHP

Hi, I have just moved a web application to a windows server and having some problems. One of it is - application stores list of names of files in a database table. when a files is requested for download it is sent to output by sending proper headers (depending upon mime type and then a readfile("document location/filename.extension"); ...

Problem with splwow64.exe and printing from IE

How do I debug the problem where my IE doesnt print unless I stop splwow64.exe in a win server 2003 x64 bit machine. ...

Getting return values from an embedded Internet explorer

I know how to open an Internet explorer from within an VBA application. But how to I get "return" values from the running explorer to the VBA application. E.g let us assume I try to access http://page_not_there and got back an Error 400 How can I get this value in my VBA Application and act accordingly. Any hints or links or programmin...

ie freezes using mootools request.html ajax

this is the method: var ajaxRequest = new Request.HTML({ method: 'post', url: url + "?dt=" + Date(), onFailure: function(item) { alert(item.responseText); }, onRequest: function(item) { gui.preloader('on'); }, onSuccess: function(html) { gui.preloader('off'); element.s...

How to programmatically determine the installed version of IE from a script

We have an automated testing cluster based on selenium-grid. To manage the cluster, I have built a collection of Rake (Ruby) tasks which can start, restart, ping, and stop nodes. I'm testing our application across a number of browsers including IE6, IE7, and IE8. This means each node in the cluster has to be aware of which version of IE...

Weird behaviour of iframe `name` attribute set by jQuery in IE

I'm doing an ajax style file upload by posting the file in a form to an iframe and noticed some weird behaviour in IE (seems to happen in both 6 & 8). Basically in IE the form doesn't target the iframe properly so the response appears in a new window (instead of in the iframe). You can reproduce the problem with the following minimal set...

Regarding Microsoft API: IHTMLWindow2::execScript Method

In MSDN, it is decleared as in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa741364(VS.85).aspx : Syntax HRESULT execScript( BSTR code, BSTR language, VARIANT *pvarRet ); Parameters code [in] BSTR that specifies the code to be executed. language [in] BSTR that specifies the language in which the code is executed. The la...

Why are my div elements shifting when the container div has overflow: auto set

Here is an example of the offending code... Note, this code works as expected in FireFox. The problem is in Internet Explorer. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"> <head runat="server"> <title></title> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.goo...

diffrent response IE-8 and FF getElementById()

i have a function what does the following function test() { document.getElementById("main").innerHTML="show wait"; // do stuff document.getElementById("main").innerHTML="show finished"; } In FF the div will show "show wait", do the other stuff for 4 seconds and then show "show finished" In IE it will only show "show fin...

jquery append not working in IE works fine in FF.

this code works fine in FF, not in IE. var target = $("#targetSelectBox") var vals = values.split(";"); for (var i = 0; i < vals.length; i++) { var parts = vals[i].split(":"); target.append($('<option />').val(parts[0].trim()).text(parts[1].trim())); } ...

How to get element by ID in IE? (Visual Studio 8?)

Using document.GetElementById(thingieID) doesn't seem to work. Can anyone help this DOM newbie? ...

Inconsistent behavior when tabbing through pages containing sifr

I've noticed inconsistent behavior when I try to tab through links on web pages that have implemented sifr 2.0.7. In IE7, I cannot successfully tab through an entire page. Tabbing seems to stop on the first link that follows an sifr element. I've removed all CSS (except that which is required for sifr) and still experience the same issue...

Fading transparent image in IE7-8

Hello. I have been checking a lot of topics on this situation and still haven't found a solution to this problem. Is it even possible? I have a website (http://dev.ultimate-web.dk) which uses the cycle plug-in (http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/) to fade the top cases. As you see on the first image when the fading occurs, it gets a black ...

IE 8 - ASP.NET form not submitting when user presses enter key

I have a simple form written in asp.net/C# and when trying to hit enter while in the form's input box doesn't submit the form for some reason. I had implemented a fix for a previous bug where pressing enter would merely refresh the page without submitting the form data but now pressing enter just does nothing, the fix is below: <div sty...