internet-explorer

Programmatically modify my Internet Explorer toolbar

How to programmatically modify my Internet Explorer toolbar button? I am currently using visual c++. ...

Click() works in IE but not Firefox

I have code which is trivial but only works in IE not Firefox. $(document).ready(function(){ $('li#first').click(); }); I have also tried: document.getElementById('first').click(); But that doesn't work either. Is this an IE bug/feature or is click() not supported in the other browsers? Responding to comments: There is a si...

Selenium RC test - IE gives 403 error on Tomcat app, Tomcat root OK

I'm new to Selenium RC, having previously used Selenium IDE and only run tests in Firefox. I'm trying to get a basic test to run using Selenium RC through Eclipse; my test works OK in Firefox, and in Safari now that I've killed the pop-up blocker, but IE8 is causing a SeleniumException to be thrown, containing an "XHR ERROR" with a 403 r...

Why hovering in this menu is not working in IE?

When a anchor is hovered in this menu it should turn its background white. It works in Firefox and Chrome but in IE the words just disappear and the background doesn't turn white. (the current anchor link works in IE is just the hover that doesn't work) EDIT: the color property in a:hover is working in IE the problem is just the backgr...

How to access parent window variables from object

I've got an XHTML 1.1 Strict document that is loading another XHTML 1.1 document in an <object> element (as <iframe> isn't part of the XHTML 1.1 spec). I'm having trouble in IE8 (don't care about 6 or 7) with accessing a javascript variable, Lightbox, in the parent window, from the document loaded in the <object>. In Firefox and everyw...

Launch IE with specific BHO enabled

I have a IE BHO plugin that I only want to be enabled when the user launches IE from my program (The program starts IE using CreateProcess()). I don't want this BHO to be enabled when a user launches IE from outside my program, as that would mean any problems in the BHO could potentially mess up the user's normal browsing experience. W...

How to explicitly add a cookie in Watir?

I need to set a cookie in IE to execute some specific flow. I tried using the following code ieb = Watir::IE.new ieb.document.cookie="rememberme=foobar;Path=/; Domain=sometestdomain.com" # Bring up browser and do bunch of stuff However, I see that when the IE comes up, rememberme cookie is not set. Am I doing something wrong here? ...

Internet Explorer visual element stacking issue

Gday All, I know this issue is well known, however I have searched high and low for a solution to no avail. I have created a menu system using nested ordered lists where the menu functionality is controlled by CSS and Jquery. The menu works perfectly in FF, Chrome, Opera and Epiphany. However in IE 6/7/8 my popup menu is being display...

Fast clicking on IE has slower response than firefox, chrome and safari. Why? (I'm using jquery)

Fast clicking on IE has slower response than firefox, chrome and safari. Why? (I'm using jquery) ...

Why is IE8 on XP not properly reading from XML using JQuery?

Given this XML in data.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <data> <bar>100</bar> </data> I want to display the content from the "bar" element using the following code in test.html <html> <head> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; </head> <bod...

Float right is making background-color disappear in IE while hovering.

Everything works OK in this language menu: http://alexchen.co.nr/beta (top right of the page). But I want the li elements to float to the right. But when I add float:right to #lang li a the background-color stop working while hovering when I hover them in IE7. #lang { float: right; padding: 50px 25px 0 0px; margin: 0 0 0 0p...

How can I get contentWindow for an Object element in IE7

I have a HTML object element like this: <object title="Search results as XML" standby="Loading XML document..." type="text/xml" data="/__CA25761100195585.nsf/WebPrintListingXML?OpenAgent&date1=01/06/2009" width="100%" height="100%" border="0" name="resultIFrame" id="resultIFrame"> Error: could not embed search results. </object> I also ...

javascript highlight text(IE7/8) Issue

Hi its a browser(IE) issue i have a code and its does highlight on selected text....its working fine but when i m selecting text that already selected then its not highlighted(Selected) on IE7/8 plz see code below if (window.getSelection) //Firefox { range = window.getSelection().getRangeAt(0); var sel = window.get...

Internet Explorer doesn't update file

Hi! I'm using AJAX with PHP to read from a file and update the div's innerHTML. It works on Chrome and Firefox, but not in Internet Explorer. I tried to use: But I think it is useless, since I'm not refreshing the page. if(!$newMsg || $newMsg == "") { // only reading from the file // do nothing } else { $fileData .= "$new...

Suppress "Done, but with errors on page" in IE

I have a website using lots of jQuery and JavaScript that produces a "Done, but with errors on page" message in the footer of IE. Everything on the site works perfectly, so I don't want to spend the time troubleshooting the exact error. All I would like to do is suppress the "Done, but with errors on page" message so that clients don't ...

Li with float in IE6/7. It disappears?

Hi guys. Try test this code in IE 6/7: <html> <head> <title>Title</title> </head> <body> <ul> <li style="float:left">huisashaiuhs iuhuiahsiuhsaiu</li> </ul> </body> </html> Where is the circle of LI? I already do ALL types of workaround, in UL and LI. Nothing, NOTHING works. Do you have any idea? (BTW already tried hasL...

IE8 forces image download on remote server

This link links to an image: http://pix-all.com/t/w Every other browser displays this image, only IE forces to download it. The correct headers are set via PHP. Is odd though that it works on my local testing server. Any ideas why? ...

jQuery ajax success chaining Internet Explorer Issues

I have a jQuery ajax function that retrieves JSON data. In the success block I call another function to parse the data and update the page. At the end of this parsing/updating function a different ajax call is made. This works perfectly in all browsers except Internet Explorer (7 and 8). The problem is Internet explorer thinks the sc...

ie not firing ajax complete call on certain page

even with a piece of code like this $.get('getforums.php', function(data) { alert(data); }); works well in chrome, firefox, safari, opera but not this baby. tried everything, cleared cache, recreate this file in different editor, even make this file just echoed a 's', but no, it just don't like this file, works perfect on other fi...

Why does my DHTML menu have huge layout issues in IE7?

This one's got me stumped. Usually with a little CSS juggling here and there I am able to solve most IE7 CSS bugs, but not this one! Head on over to the example page and view it in IE7, you will soon see that when mousing over the (vertical) drop down menu on the left of the page, it opens the sub menu WAY over to the right. I have pull...