internet-explorer

Make an image transparent in IE to show non-transparent background

Hi, I'm trying to get this thing to work in IE (any version - works in FF, Opera, Safari, Chrome ...): I have a DIV with a background-image. The DIV also contains an image that should be transparent onMouseOver. The expected behaviour now is that the DIV-background would shine through the transparent image (which it does in all browse...

PHP code not working on IE

I have a website with a flag. If it is clicked, the language of the website changes. Here is the code displaying the flag, which is a form with post event: <?php $pagename = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; echo '<form action="'.$pagename.'" method="post"> <input name="formlanguage" type="image" '; if ($_SESSION['lang'] == ...

Curved corners in the IE's... CSS 3? Conditionals? Images? JS?

Curved corners in the IE's... I'm using a CSS 3 border-radus class called .curved on all my things I want with cool curved corners. The new CSS works in all the normal browsers, however IE is being a right dips**t. Whats the best practice for adding rounded corners nowadays. Shell I target anything with .curved in JS and do it all in jq...

Why is CSS inheritance not working for me in IE8?

I have a situation that I am looking at where certain CSS properties will not be inherited. This revolves around tables and IE8. Using the sample HTML below I cannot get the text within the table to inherit the green colour. This works in Firefox and Chrome, but not IE8 and from reading up this seems to have always been a problem in IE ...

IE opens a new window for a link, FF doesn't

Very strange, I have a list of products. When a user clicks on an the image it opens up a new IE window. Firefox doesn't do this. What could be the reason for this? the urls are: http://website.example.com and clicking on the image goes to (which is hosted on another server): http://store.website.example.com Could this be some ...

Does Internet Explorer 7 have a CSS parsing issue with the "background-image" property?

Having CSS layout issues with Internet Explorer 7 (big surprise). Upon using the Developer Tools to inspect the CSS, I discovered that some properties defined in the stylesheet are not appearing in the parsed CSS structure... THEN I saw THIS being shown as the parsed value for the background-image property: background-image : url(/trunk...

Javascript crash / Ajax in IE after 5 times

Hi Please give a look at this site. maimei.ch After 5 times opening a new site via ajax (fancybox) it crashes in IE? One little thing is that i load a whole asp.net site via ajax in the new window. so viewstate and other overhead is there twice after. could this be the problem? if yes, why just after 5 times?. is it possible to call...

Change Browser settings by script

Hi Folks, Afaik, you can change/manipulate browser settings in Mozilla/Netscape browsers. For Instance "netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege('someprivilege');" Of course the user gets informed about that and needs to verify the action. My question is, do other browser have similar functionality? IE, Safari/Chrome ? Kind...

Script Debugging in IE

Hi Folks, I'm really interested which way you guys use to effectivly debug a large (let's say 1000 lines and more) javascript in IE7/8/9. I'm so sick of reading a message like 'error in line 9328789237498" or "line 1" which totally makes no sense. No error description. There must be something like Firebug? please? :) Kind Regards --...

javascript location.hash refreshing in IE

I need to modify the hash, remove it after certain processing takes place so that if the user refreshes they do not cause the process to run again. This works fine in FF, but it seems that IE is reloading every time I try to change the hash. I think it is related to other things that are loading on the page, though I am not certain. I ...

Is it OK to have multiple html, head, and body elements in single page

I have multiple pages being pulled together into a single page. Some of these individual pages have their own html, head, and body elements. Is it detrimental to the performance of the page to have these? It seems that the DOM is correct (only has a single of each element) in FireBug. ...

Why can't I dynamically add rows to a HTML table using JavaScript in Internet Explorer?

In Firefox it works, in my Internet Explorer 6 or 7 it doesn't: <html> <head> <script type="text/javascript"> function newLine() { var tdmod = document.createElement('td'); tdmod.appendChild(document.createTextNode("dynamic")); var tr = document.createElement('tr'); tr.appendChild(tdmod); ...

100% height on nested table cell in IE

I want a nested table to expand to the height of the enclosing cell. This works as expected in Firefox/Chrome/Safari, but not in IE7 or IE8. Please see the example here: http://www.bitmechanic.com/heightDemo.html The DOCTYPE is relevant. While the demo above validates as HTML 4.01 Strict, it does not render properly in IE7. If I re...

IE positioning problems

In every browser but IE, on euroworker.no/order the little green arrow under the word "produkt" sits on top of my div container. Why in the world does this not work in IE? Thing is, it works on two pages out of four in IE but all four in other browsers. All the pages are built the same, but for IE it displays this thing like 20px above t...

why is internet explorer displaying my javascript pagination backwards?

Here's a version of the code I'm using, stripped down to just the parts that aren't working. This is all written to generate some basic pagination with jQuery. In Chrome/Safari/Moz, I generate see spans, 1,2,3,4,...,etc When I look in IE7/8, I see etc,...,4,3,2,1 The string seems to be concatenating backwards!! This seems very strang...

Phantom horizontal scroll bars on the whole window in IE.

I'm working on a website layout you can find at dev.movingcost.com In most browsers, everything seems fine... but I'm getting a horizontal scroll bar on the window when viewing the page in IE. I'm using a fixed width of 960px with auto margins to center the content. I've even tried using "overflow-x:hidden" on the html and body tags ...

Remove "Flash" between pages while using Internet Explorer modal boxes

I have an internal web application, that is IE specific, and uses a lot of IE specific modal boxes: (window.showModalDialog). I recently received a request to remove the "flash" when navigating between pages of the site. To accomplish this, I just added a meta transition tag to my master page: <meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="ble...

How do I work around an HTML Table rendering bug in IE 7?

I have a table. Some cells span multiple columns. Some cells span multiple rows and columns. But one row (which spans all columns but the rightmost one) creates an artifact. Part of the text in the cell is erroneously repeated left justified on a new row just below the table. I'm baffled. I tried rendering with and without "table-layout...

jQuery .attr() crashing Internet Explorer

Hello everyone, This is my first time posting a question here, as I usually try to find solutions myself. This one, though, being an IE issue, just drives me crazy. I use jQuery cycle plug-in on a website I made and, to populate a caption div, I use a little function that is called after the image is loaded, which uses the "alt" attrib...

disable javascript on ie browsers

is there a way to disable a certain script for all ie browsers? ...