internet-explorer

Can't access the option value using javascript on Internet Explorer

I have the following setup "<form name=\"mylimit\" style=\"float:left\"> <select name=\"limiter\" onChange=\"limit()\"> <option selected=\"selected\">&nbsp;</option>"; ... I wrote a js script to access the selected value of the selectField 'limiter' like so: var w = document.mylimit.limiter.selectedIn...

Google Maps InfoBox Not Displaying Correctly in IE

I can only post one link so here is a reference page with corresponding links: http://rireal.com/code/index.html I am using a modified version of extinfowindow for Google Maps v3 (reference link 1) to display a custom infobox window for my markers. While I successfully implemented the InfoBox in v3, I ran into an issue with IE during te...

sifr 3 not working in IE 8 64bit (windows 7)

hi all... love sifr - use it all the time... but i've noticed that it does not replace text in IE 8 64bit version... works fine in regular IE 8 on windows 7, but not the 64bit version... for a test, anyone viewing this on a 64bit windows machine please take a look at the demo itself in IE 64bit: http://dev.novemberborn.net/sifr3/svn/t...

CSS overflow IE vs FF

I'm trying to have a single row of numbers, and if the row is wider than let's say 100 pixels, I want a horizontal (x) scrollbar to appear. This is easy to achieve in FireFox, but IE keeps folding the list and giving me a vertical (y) scrollbar as well, and items that I want to the right are appearing below. anyone know how to do this?...

Why is the font quality of JQuery fadeIn() worse on Internet Explorer than Firefox/Chrome?

Why is the quality of this fadeIn/fadeOut demo much smoother when viewed in Firefox/Chrome than when viewed in IE8? http://tanguay.info/web/examples/jquerflash2 ...

modifying list of rss readers displayed when subscribing in IE 7/8

i'm working on an internal webapp that provides some rss reading capabilities, and we'd like for the webapp to be in the list of readers that the users see when they click on an rss link. if firefox, i know you can do this by making additional entries in about.config for the key browser.contenthandlers. but unfortunately, we're an IE e...

Reports of NiftyPlayer playing MP3s at double speed in IE

Hi, i've recently recoded a website to use NiftyPlayer as an embedded MP3 player. You can see a page here -> http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/shop/catalogue.php?genre=0 I've had reports from a few people that certain MP3s are playing through twice as fast on IE. This seems to be at random, I can't reproduce the effect. Has anybody els...

C# UpdatePanel Update seems to be working in Firefox but not IE

I've got a page with several Update Panels on it. The first has a panel with a gridview which has an event to close the panel and update the UpdatePanel - then populate a control in a second updatepanel. It seems to work fine in firefox but in IE the panel appears to not respect the visible=false. The gridview is not databound so it do...

jQuery:IE only, input:checked returns 0 even when items selected

I'm seeing an error I can't replicate from a small subset of users. Here's the code: var selected = $('#mytable input:checked'); if (selected.length == 0) { $('body').trigger('notice', 'Please select some items first'); return; } Even when the user checks several checkboxes, the "notice" triggers. It seems selected.length is z...

PHP/Session/IE: Constant are saved, variable not

I have a very strange problem. Situation: Session handling over MySQL, PHP 5.2.4, wildcard cookies, FF/Opera/Safari/Chrome works, IE7/8 not. When I save a variable into the session, the value is lost. The DB shows after the write action only "N" instead of "123456". Example: $bar = 123456; $_SESSION['foo'] = $bar; But when I save a...

Problem in reference js file for IE7/8

I have a very strange problem in an ASP.NET page, the following reference of JavaScript file works well in IE6 <script src='~/Scripts/xxx.js' type="text/javascript"></script> But not working in IE7/8, I got object required error when load the page change to the following works: <script src='<%# ResolveUrl ("~/Scripts/xxx.js") %>' t...

IE smoothing a map pan when dragging

I've trying to smooth out the performance of a map application i've been building using javascript. I initially implemented a dragging pan using onmousedown onmousemove onmouseup However in IE it feels really sluggish and it appears that when you move the cursor really fast the map doesn't update it position until you stop moving. I...

javascript dates in IE, NAN - firefox & chrome ok

I'm trying to build a little calendar in javascript, and I've got my dates working great in Firefox and chrome, but in IE, the date functions are returning NAN. Here is the function function buildWeek(dateText){ alert(dateText); var headerDates=''; var newDate = new Date(dateText); var...

ASP.Net MVC FilePathResult Failing in IE

I have a controller action that returns a pdf document. Depending on a site switch variable it will choose one of a number of source files, rename it and return it to the browser. This works perfectly on Chrome and Firefox but, on IE8, the download dialog appears and then the following error messagebox... "Internet Explorer cannot do...

jQuery 1.3.2 append() fails in IE7 and IE8

The code is simple. Works in every browser but IE. J.get('/upload/uploadresponse/' + uploaded_lessonfile_id , function ( data ){ J('#upload-files').prepend( data ); }); alert() on data shows the required data. Html is <div id="upload-files"></div> - no magic there. Would prefer not to upgrade to jQuery 1.4. Would prefer to wipe ...

Internet Explorer removes .exe extension from download when followed by URL parameters

I am serving files from Amazon S3 now, and I generate a secure URL using the API. Works great everywhere except for people downloading .exe files in IE. I have tested this on IE 8 and 7. If running a local webserver you can test by putting notepad.exe in your web root. Go to http://localhost/notepad.exe (or equivalent) Now try http:/...

jQuery Image/Hover Preview Causing Choppy Behavior in IE7

Hi everyone, I seem to be having some problems using jQuery to create a simple zoom in IE. In Firefox all is well, but IE is being reported as choppy by most users. I've disabled the code in IE (using jQuery.browser.msie), but would love anyone's help if possible. My jquery source code is below (ignore the upport function). this...

Strange issue with jQuery and integration between xsl and javascript

Hallo all I got this piece of html code generated from a xsl file. <html id="lista_movimenti"> <head> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <meta content="text/css" http-equiv="Content-Style-Type"> <meta content="text/javascript" http...

Javascript convert data from utf-8 to iso-8859-1

Hi, I work on a website which is all done in iso-8859-1 encoding using old ASP 3.0. I use Yahoo YQL to request data (XML) from external websites but which I request to be returned as JSON-P (JSON with a callback function so I can retrieve the data). The problem I am facing is that YQL seems to always return data encoded in utf-8, which...

How do I find the ProgId for an ActiveX control using javascript?

I am using an ActiveX control and I need to find it's ProgId so that I can see if ActiveX is disabled using the " var p = new ActiveXObject(ProgId); " try/catch method. All I know about the object is what I put in my .aspx page: Also, I have looked up and down my registry and can't find that CLSID, maybe because it's only instal...