internet-explorer

Trying to select text within a cell in a table in Internet Explorer results in rest of table being selected.

I have a strange problem on a web page I'm working with. I have table with lots of information in it and when I try to select a single cell (click-drag) it selects that entire cell and the rest of the table. I have checked the code over and over again and I cannot seem to find what is causing this problem. Other tables work just fine wi...

browser showing half progress bar even after page is fully rendered

Hi, what could be the reason if browser is showing progress bar (stuck at half) as if it is still trying to load something, even after the page is rendered. this is an intranet ASP.NET website. how can I find out the reason? the browser is IE8. actually this started after the browser is upgraded from IE6 to IE8. not sure if this issue ...

Menu not working in IE

I'm trying to re-build (note, I am primarily an application developer, know very little so far about web development beyond HTML) a website for the family business, and am running into a bit of trouble so far. The CSS menu system I have built works fine in Firefox, but in Internet Explorer, none of the menu items appear when the mouse h...

Detect if window has scrollbar in IE using javascript (window.open)

When i call window.open, I can include a list of parameters. One of these paramaters is scrollbars, which can be set to yes or no. When I put javascript in the child window, the javascript needs to detect if scrollbars were set to yes or no when the window was opened. I want to know if the window has scrollbars enabled by default or not...

sIFR 3 r 436 not displaying in IE7

I am new to sIFR and I am unable to get the fonts to display properly in IE7. I get an "Expected Identifier, String or Number" error, which I don't know how to troubleshoot. Here is my dev link: http://paradigm-aero.bigrigmedia.com/test.html Any insight would be greatly appreciated!!! ...

jQuery .fadeIn turns content invisible in IE

Hi, I'm having some difficulty getting IE to behave. I have created a web page containing various hidden divs. These act as sub pages, when a nav item is clicked they fade in/out in a very basic lightbox manner. It works in Firefox & Safari but in IE (8) it fades in to about 60% then vanishes completely, also knocking out the backgroun...

HTML selection option with javascript doesn't work in IE

hallo, can somebody help me. I try to make some thing happen when i click on anders(value 0), than something need to be vissible. It works in firefox but not in IE <select id="budget" name="budget"> <option value="0" onclick="anders('1')">Anders</option> <option value="200" onclick="anders('');" selected="selected">&#8364; 200,-</option...

incompatibility error - element is not allowed to be self closing in current schema

I had a html page that showed no incompatibility issues. I added some php code at the top for security purposes and now I get these following incompatibility issues due to the page now being a php page This element is not allowed to be self-closing in the current schema. The schema is Internet Explorer 8.0. I tried removing the trail...

jquery mouse events masked by img in IE8 - all other platforms/browsers work fine

Using the jQuery mouse events for mouseenter, mouseleave or hover all work swimmingly on all Mac or Windows browsers except for IE8/Windows. I am using mouseenter and mouseleave to test for hot rectangles (absolutely positioned and dimensioned divs that have no content) over an image used as hotspots to make visible the navigation butto...

Position Absolute Problems in Older IE

.top_line { background:#003466; float:left; height:107px; width:100%; } .header_logo { background:url("../images/header.png") top no-repeat; position: absolute; height:107px; width:910px; } .page_wrapper { margin:0px auto; width:910px; } <div class="top_line"></div> <div class="header_logo" align="center"></div> <div class="page_wrapper...

How to deal with IE errors

I don't get any error in firefox or firebug, but yet in IE I get invalid argument for some reason, and I can't figure out what is the invalid argument, the javascript halts when "error" is discovered .. what can I do to debug it ? ...

innerHTML in IE?

I'm having trouble using innerHTML with my radio type button. <table align="center"> <div class='main'> <span id="js" class='info'> <label><input type="radio" name="js" value="0" size="<?php echo $row['size']; ?>" onclick="js(this.value, this.size);" /><img src="arrowup.png"/></label> <br /> <label><input type="radio" name=...

.trim() in JavaScript not working in IE

I tried to apply .trim() in JavaScript in one of my programs. It's working fine under Mozilla, but an error displays when I try it in IE8. Does anyone know what is going on here? Is there anyway I can make it work in IE? code: var ID = document.getElementByID('rep_id').value.trim(); error display: Message: Object doesn't support thi...

AJAX issues, no response or "access is denied"

What could it mean if I make an ajax request with the jQuery .load() and I get no response at all in firefox or chrome, and in ie8 I get an error saying "Access is Denied"? ...

IE6 Memory Leak on Refresh?

Hello all, I reload a page every few seconds to get an update from the server, this page can be open and this can happen forever - I am guessing, espcially since this browser is on a remote server which isn't turned off. I do this: setTimeout(function () { location.href = location.href; // forces a reload from the server }...

JQuery AJAX call doubling in Internet Explorer

I'm currently working on a page using JQuery that calls itself with AJAX whenever a particular div is clicked. When I load the page in Firefox, it works fine. However, in both IE8 and Opera, the AJAX calls are doubling every time I click the div. I have created a simplified example page to illustrate the problem (save as ajaxtest.htm)...

jQuery plugins scrollTo and scrollLocal not working on IE

I'm using the following jQuery plugins (along with the jQuery plugin): <script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/jquery.scrollTo-min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/jquery.localscroll-min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/custom.js"></script> When I click this anchor link: <a hre...

jQuery : Running script in the address bar

In most web browsers, you can execute JavaScript in the address bar (i.e. javascript:alert('Test'); Is it possible to execute jQuery in the address bar? ...

document.onmousemove / onmmouseup prevent selecting text in IE input or textarea

whenever i alter the onmousemove or onmouseup attributes of the document, for example: document.onmousemove = myOnMouseMove; document.onmouseup = myOnMouseUp; It prevents me from selecting text in any input type='text' or textarea elements in internet explorer (have tried in ie7 and ie8, fine in firefox). If I remove either of...

Yahoo maps not displaying in IE 8

Anybody know whats going on? I think this isn't just a problem for my mash. Yahoo maps india doesn't work either: http://in.maps.yahoo.com/ ...