internet-explorer

How to make this jQuery snippet work in Internet Explorer?

If there was ever a time to hate IE, this is it. This code begins with a box with content. When the button is clicked, the box is supposed to drop down and fade-in. <html> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script> <script type='text/javascript'> function Test() { var item_height = $('#test').height(); $('#test').heig...

In IE8, jquery-ui's dialog set the height of its contents to zero. How can I fix this?

I am using jquery UI's dialog widget to render a modal dialog in my web application. I do this by passing the ID of the desired DOM element into the following function: var setupDialog = function (eltId) { $("#" + eltId).dialog({ autoOpen: false, width: 610, minWidth: 610, height: 450, minHeight: 200, modal: t...

How to upload a file with watir and IE?

I am writing a watir script to test an upload form. But the script does not automatically choose the file that is to be uploaded from my harddrive. Instead IE stops with the file chooser dialog open. As soon as I manually select the to be uploaded file in the dialog and click ok, watir continues as desired. I wonder why it stops. This...

Emulating CSS3 border-radius and box-shadow in IE7/8

I'm working on HTML for a small web application; the design calls for a content area with rounded corners and a drop shadow. I've been able to produce this with CSS3, and it works flawlessly on Firefox and Chrome: However, Internet Explorer 7 and 8 (not supporting CSS3) is a different story: Is there an easy, lightweight JavaScript...

What version of Internet Explorer (IE) should my web app support

Since MS will stop supporting anything before IE 8 soon, I am not sure if I should make my web app compatible with those older browsers. I know there are still people using them but I don't know if there are enough to make it worth while. Any suggestions as to how to decide what version to support? Thanks. ...

IE not showing jquery append() images

Ok, so i took John Raasch's slideshow script and modyfied it too dynamicly fetch images from multiple folders on the server through ajax. The slideshow work like a charm in FF and Chrome but IE is not showing the images. And since IE's javascript debugging possibilities is close to none I cant figure out what is crashing. Some of the va...

CSS Menu disappear

Hi, I created a menu in html/css but where I wanted the subitems to be shown on parent item hover. The problem is when I hover on it in IE it only shows it's subitems when I hover on the text in the menu item, If I hover over the element and not the text the subitems disappear again. So if I hover and want to move my mouse to my submenu ...

Google maps z-index problem in IE

I'm loading my google maps into div class="extra" style="display: none;" /. As soon as the AJAX request is complete, the map_canvas div is placed inside the hidden div and the hidden div will be vissible with the toggleDown jquery effect. In FF it's working perfect, but in IE the Google maps (map_canvas div) is already visible before th...

Internet Explorer won't display facelets .xhtml files

I'm just starting to work with JSF and Facelets and I've put together a very simple page that is just taking a template from another file and inserting some text (just to show that it pulls inormation from both the template and the calling page) However whenever I try to view the page in Internet Explorer 7, it attempts to download the ...

$('<style></style>').text('css').appendTo('head') does not work in IE?

It works fine in Firefox and Chrome, but does not work in IE8. Here is the html structure: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; <script type="text/j...

extra whitespace on top of image in form in IE

I have a test form with whitespace above the top image that shouldn't be there... The image is a background-image attached to the h1 tag. It looks like there's space between the .wufoo div, and the #main_form form. Css: <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://system.netsuite.com/c.659197/oboe/integrate/wufoo/css/structure.css" type="text/...

Back Button gets Disabled on IE 7,8 for an ASP.NET site

In an ASP.NET 3.5 website we are noticing that the back button is not working properly. If the user does several postbacks (say 10 times), and than starts pressing back button - the back button gets disabled before the user gets through all the pages. The site does not use AJAX.net. I can reproduce the issue on IE 7 and 8 almost always....

What's the most efficient way to manage large datasets with Javascript/jQuery in IE?

I have a search that returns JSON, which I then transform into a HTML table in Javascript. It repeatedly calls the jQuery.append() method, once for each row. I have a modern machine, and the Firefox response time is acceptable. But in IE 8 it is unbearably slow. I decided to move the transformation from data to HTML into the server-s...

Telerik asp.net mvc datepicker "Invalid argument" in Internet Explorer (IE) 8

I am using Telerik asp.net mvc extensions. I have an issue that happens only in IE. I have IE 8. I don't have this issue in Firefox (3.6.3) or Chrome (4.1.249.1059) The problem happens when I want to pick a particular date by first clicking on the year on top and then the month. At that time, I get Invalid Argument error in jquery-1.4.2...

Non-IE6 IE7 hack

I managed to create a page the crashes IE6 and 7 regularly as per here: http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2675/crash-ie6-with-only-css I have a solution for non-IE browsers (display: inline-block), but the only way to get IE6/7 working is to use different CSS (display: inline). Normally I would have other browsers use inline-block, then i...

Internet explore is unresponsive while loading a large page

We have a html page being rendered in the browser (IE) that causes the browser to hang. The page is generated through server side script (ASP.NET and viewstate is disabled). The page while loading takes a long time (its not a b\w issue since we can reproduce it on local machine) and sometimes results in script unresponsive error. On deb...

Can a program that controls IE detect if a HTTP 30x code is encountered?

I am trying to control an InternetExplorer.Application via the COM interface, using Perl, Win32::OLE, and information from MSDN. My goal is to get as good an idea as possible about what IE is doing. (Related to this question.) IE uses events to notify my program when it has finished various stages of processing a certain URL (NavigateCo...

Weird duplicate IE div.

Here's a weird bug I've found, IE8 is duplicating my div, but only a part of it. How it looks in IE8: And here's how it's meant to look in FF: And the HTML: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" ...

edited an .SWF, locally the changes made are okay, but when on server changes are not fully visible

Hi, I just edited an .SWF file I have on my website home page for a while now. I update the SWF frequently with new pictures. It's actually a picture slideshow, consisting out of 6 images. I used Adobe Flash CS4 Pro to edit the file, with just swapping all the pictures (JPGS) in it for other ones. I also have some small AS where I just h...

Preloader stalling flash movie in IE

This is only a problem in IE. the following actionscript is for a simple preloader for a movie i'm working on. It works fine in Firefox but the movie stops on the first frame of the preloader when opened with Internet Explorer. Has anyone had this problem before? stop(); addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,checkLoad); function checkLoa...