internet-explorer

Classic ASP page automatically sets Quriks mode as defualt in IE 8

While viewing the HTML IE 8 sets the default document mode as IE8 Standards as it should but it enters quirks mode on an asp page. Even if I use <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt; it doesn't really help. What should I do? ...

Google Toolbar prevents open a new window

Google toolbar is creating a serious problem for me in IE 6 when i try to open a window using window.open or if i set target="_blank" for anchor tag. It treats the window as pop up and dispaly pop up is blocked which i really don't want to dsiplay to my user. This problem only occurs if there is a extra code getting executed before windo...

Issue with Internet explorer 8

Hi Every one, I have designed a web page in ASP.Net. And ran it in IE 8. Than changed the zoom size into 400%. Then changed it into 100%. Now the size(Height) of the dropdownboxes in the page has got affected. How can I overcome this? ...

Printing excanvas

I can't get IE to print my canvas (generated using excanvas)... I'm using the most recent version of excanvas. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/997831/canvas.html (Note: I already tried having the canvas element already on the page instead of creating it with document.createElement) ...

How do I make jQuery UI look better in IE?

I've read the css framework of jquery ui: http://jqueryui.com/docs/Theming/API And find some of the css settings is not valid in IE: .ui-corner-all { -moz-border-radius-bottomleft:4px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright:4px; -moz-border-radius-topleft:4px; -moz-border-radius-topright:4px; } Is there some way to fix this kind of situatio...

JavaScript/JQuery: use $(this) in a variable-name

Hi! I'm writing a jquery-plugin, that changes a css-value of certain elements on certain user-actions. On other actions the css-value should be reseted to their initial value. As I found no way to get the initial css-values back, I just created an array that stores all initial values in the beginning. I did this with: var initialCSSV...

Will adding rel or name attributes to divs and spans cause IE/FF to go into quirks mode?

Will a tag like <span id="suchAndSuch" class="blah" rel="this.that.other" name="this.name"></span> or <div id="suchAndSuch" class="blah" rel="this.that.other" name="this.name"></div> throw IE and/or FF to QM? According to W3C, those aren't standard attributes for those tags, but it does not say if it'll make them invalid. Your hel...

IE7 default form method is "GET". How can I tell if it's user-entered or default?

If a user creates a form without a method attribute, it seems like most browsers will handle this at the time of form submission. So upon inspection of the form element after the DOM is ready, you can see that there is no "method" attr of the form element object. IE7, however, apparently sets a default method value of "GET" on all forms...

jquery remote validation

i have 3 remote validation in my form and 3 of them works with no errors in firefox console. the 3rd one is not working properly in IE. IE gives me the error "object doesnt support this property" this gives an error in IE check.php: &lt; ?php $sql="select * from people where email = '".$email."'"; $row=mysql_query($sql,$db_connection)...

In JavaScript is it possible on IE to register one event listener to capture all the change, focus, and blur events on the page?

In non-IE browsers: The change event bubbles, so you can catch it when it gets to document in the bubbling phase. The focus and blur events don't bubble, but you can catch them on the capture phase with one event listener on document. On IE: None of those 3 events bubble (including the change event, which is not spec compliant). Ther...

InternetExplorer.Application : Select multiple "option value" fields

Trying IE Automation with Powershell. Task: Select multiple option value fields and click submitbutton. HTML looks like: : : : <center><input type="hidden" name="HF_certType" value="x509"><select name="HF_rvk" size="8" multiple> <option selected value = "Line 1">Line 1 Option</option> <option value = "Line 2">Line 2 Option</option> <op...

Turn off option to open xls file in internet explorer from the site?

Hi, BACKGROUND: I have built a web application for a client which allows them to save excel files to the server. When I first built the application I stored these files in an uploads folder and linked to them directly from pages within the application (eg File). On reflection this wasn't very secure so I changed the uploader file to...

IE not selecting form field when label is clicked an form field is hidden

I am using jQuery to hide form fields (I am manipulating checkboxes and radio buttons). In FF and Chrome, when I click the associated label, the form field still activates and checks. In IE, that does not happen. How can I have the label activate the checkboxes/radio buttons in IE? ...

IE remove colors for web page when printing.

HI, I have a website with background colours which are important at the time of printing, but IE removes all colours from page. I know there is some settings to disable this on IE, but I can not rely on users to get into IE settings to disable this option from IE. Is there any way to disable this from my web page, or some way arround? ...

Dynamically generate Javascript with JSP in IE

I try to do something like that 1. <head><% out.println("<script type=\"text/javascript\">"); out.println("function myfunction(){"); out.println("for(int i=0;i<10;i++){"); out.println("alert(message+i);"); out.println("}}"); out.println("</script></head>"); %> and use it like that <body><input type="button" value="abcd" onclick="myfu...

The IE file download dialog - how to hide the from field?

I need to hide the From field on the standard Internet Explorer's file download dialog. This is necessary for security reasons. The picture to look at is at http://www.filedropper.com/howtohidefrom Any ideas? ...

Excel Macro in Internet Explorer....can't run. Please help

Hi, I am a mechanical engineer who has recently dabbled with VBA in Microsoft Excel (Office 2003). I have created an excel (.xls) file (created macro using VBA). The excel file is protected and has hidden worksheets. When I try to run the excel macro in Internet Explorer, I get an error message "Method of class "Sheets" failed in object...

Hidden iframe problem

In IE6 (but also seen in 7 and to a lesser extend 8) I have a problem with my code. I utilise a hidden iframe for Comet streaming. Sometimes when someone manually refreshes the page in Internet Explorer, they don't get the parent page but are taken by the browser to the hidden iframe URL. Anyone seen this before or have any suggestions ...

WebBrowser.Navigate(...) throws COMException

Hi! Developing an Internet Explorer command button, that will open a specific web page once clicked. A snippet of code (IEApp is a reference to an instance of IE.WebBrowser.): IEApp.Navigate(sURL, ref one, ref two, ref three, ref four); The above line throws the following COMException: Exception Source: Interop.SHDocVw Exception...

msxml XMLHTTP for large json object works very slow on IE8 and quite good on Firefox - why?

Hi, I am creating an XMLHTTP object in Firefox and IE8 and i transfer a very large amount of data (json). In Firefox it renders it in 5 seconds, in IE8 it takes 30 seconds. Is there any way to make IE8 XMLHTTP works faster? Here is my code for creating the XHR object: function createRequestObject2() { var http_request = false; if(win...