internet-explorer

IE8 developer tools missing some styles

Hi, I'm having some problems with some CSS properties in IE8. I've tested my site in IE7, Chrome and Firefox and they work fine but IE8 is having some layout issues. I inspect the developer tool option on ie8 and I've noticed that some of the properties I set in CSS are being ignored by ie8. For example: #header { position: rela...

IE 7 does not like jquery('<button/>').attr('type','button')

I am trying to create a button using jquery. I use the following code jquery('<button/>', {type:'button'}).text(name) However this works in Safari , FF IE8 but not IE7 i tried to use the attr function : jquery('<button/>').attr('type','button').text(name) this does not work either. any ideas what would work? I suppose if I don't ...

JS - Why is this hidden div not showing in IE?

Hello. I've made a page which should show a div when the user clicks on a input text box. The div will contain more information about the required input, etc. The page works fine on FireFox and the div shows, but when using IE the div just doesn't show. It seems like I've tried everything and nothing has worked so far. This is the page. ...

IE DIV with absolute positioning width goes to 100% of screen when it has a floating element inside

I have created a dialog box ( a div with position:absolute) if any element inside the box has a float : right the width of the box goes to 100% of the screen in IE7 float :left does not affect it. this problem is specific to ie7 thank you for your help ...

Firefox XUL toolbar with javascript to IE?

Hi, I have developed a Firefox toolbar in XUL, which uses javascript to manipulate the DOM. I'd like to export this to IE. I know that IE doesn't support XUL, but wonder: (1) is there an easy way to use the existing javascript code for the IE toolbar as well? (2) is there a IE installer that easily creates all necessary registry val...

IE9 Acid 3 test?

Does anybody know if Microsoft is planning on having IE9 pass with 100/100 on acid 3? The current version of IE9 gets a 68/100 on the test (can be viewed here, main site here). What did IE8 pass with? What about IE7? How does it compare to other modern browsers such as Safari, Firefox, and Chrome? Please submit useful answers, not opin...

jquery's every() doesn't work on Internet Explorer

When I run the following javascript in IE, I get "Error: Object doesn't support this property or method" on "data.every(...)". It works in Chrome/Firefox. ...

IE6 - body shrink on hover / z-index change

I'm debugging a site to make it work for IE6 (god, please, let this be the last time). I've gotten pretty far with getting the the layout look right. There's just one more thing bugging me. Some elements like links, when they get hovered, the body of the site shrinks. I have built a dropdown with javascript. When it should show, the ...

Why can't IE6 shows semi transparent png8 files with alpha filter ?

-- read the whole question before answering -- Hi, i work on a big website that had a lot (45000+) of png24 images (with semi transparency). I converted them to png8 and it works very well (a big help on page load time...). The thing is i had to keep png24 files for ie6 users (with alpha filter to have semi transparent pixels) because...

javascript function wont fire in IE...

I have this code: <body onLoad="subcatSelection();"> The function is inside a .js file which is included with this code: <script type="text/javascript" src="bincgi/search_lists.js"></script> The function contains an alert('hello'); just for testing purposes to see if it gets called, but it doesn't. The "Page error" or whatever...

Open the Word Application from a button on a web page

I'm developing a proof of concept web application: A web page with a button that opens the Word Application installed on the user's PC. I'm stuck with a C# project in Visual Studio 2008 Express (Windows XP client, LAMP server). I've followed the Writing an ActiveX Control in .NET tutorial and after some tuning it worked fine. Then I add...

IE8 rendering of local-files is wrong

It appears that IE8 is not rendering properly a local file: Consider this simple webpage: http://sayang.free.fr/ie8render.html (html code below) extracted from a w3c tutorial on opacity. Save it locally and display it again: the local file has no opacity! That's very annoying, especially when one wants to design complex pages on proto...

Internet Explorer not incrementing number for non-sibling <li> elements

I've got some html that looks like this: <ol> <div> <li>one</li> </div> <div> <li>two</li> </div> <div> <li>three</li> </div> </ol> Which looks like this in Chrome/Firefox: 1. one 2. two 3. three But looks like this in IE: 1. one 1. two 1. three If I change the code so that the li element is the parent of the...

Working with the IE cache

I'm writing a program in C# using the WPF framework. I need to display images, and I'd like to cache them to avoid downloading them constantly. I can code my own cache, however, IE already has a caching system. I can find code to read entries out of the IE cache, however I've found nothing dealing with the issue of adding items to the c...

How to count new lines in Internet Explorer?

Hey, all. I'm doing my own syntax highlighter for Javascript and CSS, and I've run into an issue with Internet Explorer (big surprise). I grab all the contents of a code.block tag (example below) using innerHTML, and .split("\n") that result to get each line by itself. This works wonderfully except in IE. I have tried using innerText...

Mp3 Player IE Bug Issue

Ok, well on my site http://www.easyasmp3.com/ for some reason the esnips (first) results arn't playing in internet explorer on the results page. When you click the little play button it's not doing anything. Works fine in firefox. Could anyone help Thanks! ...

Can Internet Explorer bind events to absolute positioned elements ?

Can Internet Explorer bind events to absolute positioned elements ? I can't bind a "click" to an element that is overlapping another. Have tried loads of different ways, here a few tests that don't work in IE: //version 1: $(".classHolder").click(function(){ alert( $(this).html() ); }); //version 2: $(".classHolder").each(function()...

CSS: My site looks exactly the same in Firefox/Chrome/Safari - but IE7, it's all out of whack

On [my site][1] everything looks great in Firefox/Chrome/Safari (all the same) - but IE7, it's all out of whack. Any ideas how I can modify my CSS to make IE7 at least somewhat usable? ...

ASP.Net AJAX - IE 6/7 Memory Usage?

Hi, We're carrying out testing of our ASP.Net AJAX application, and are finding memory usage in Internet Explorer 6 & 7 increases by at least 2mb for each page refresh - whether refreshing the same page or navigating to a new one. This happens on the most basic of maintenance screens, and even on the main page where we've only got the ...

Prevent Word from Reformatting my HTML

I have an HTML page that needs to open in word. I created the document in word and saved the document as an HTML document. So word spits out all its nasty HTML syntax. This is the opened through internet explorer which will display the word document within the browser. When I view the page word modifies some of the tags. More specifical...