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internet explorer and dynamic lists from javascript

I have a page that requires user input then it will execute some javascript and populate fields on the page. Part of this includes calling a perl script that will run and get data from another page check that against the input from the user. The number of items that the perl script will return could be anywhere from zero to ten or even m...

CSS Issue: Hidden children stretching along Y-axis in IE with pure CSS?

I've been able to do this in Chrome and Firefox, and I thought I had it working in IE7 and IE8, but alas, I must've been dreaming. Basically I have the following HTML: <style> div,li,ul { margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; outline: 0; } ul,li { list-style: none; } div#container { display: inline-block; width: 600...

Scrolling Navigation gets stuck in IE?

I have a navigation in the top right corner that will scroll down a page with a user. I am using this jQuery code: var $scrollingDiv = $("#scrollingDiv"); $(window).scroll(function(){ $scrollingDiv .stop() .animate({"marginTop": ($(window).scrollTop() + 30) + "px"}, "fast" ); }); ...

IE/Firefox CSS confusion: Why does my table have inside borders on Firefox, but not IE?

Ok - I'm having a problem with CSS not displaying correctly between IE and Firefox... The big problem is that we have a ridiculous number of CSS files (and this isn't something that is currently scoped to fix), and I can't seem to find what style is being applied. Any way, here's what I'm looking at: On the shopping cart page for our s...

JQuery .each() and IE all versions problem

i am using this code and it is working on all browsers without a glitch but with IE all versions it`s not working can anyone help me with this $('a.download').each(function() { $(this).colorbox({href:$(this).attr('href') + ' div#download_popup',onComplete: function(){ $('div.sociable').hide(); $('a#share_button').click( fun...

Fooling the Internet Explorer Javascript engine into letting a script run

I'm repeatedly coming into troubles with Internet Explorer's "This script is taking too long to run, would you like to continue?" messages. I am wondering if anyone is aware of a clever way to trick the JS engine into keeping quiet? Based on some searching I did, I found that the engine monitors states it thinks potentially could be infi...

Umbraco IE error in tinymce3tinymceCompress.aspx

When using the latest Release version (4.0.4.2) of Umbraco, the tinymce3 control fails to show/load in the backoffice of umbraco. Instead a JavaScript error is shown: --- ERROR CONTENT --- Message: Invalid argument. Line: 1 Char: 14609 Code: 0 URI: http://example.com/umbraco/plugins/tinymce3/tinymce3tinymceCompress.aspx?rnd=5c8e3f37-f...

Unable to select text after entering designMode in IE

I am using jQuery plugin (http://plugins.jquery.com/project/lwRTE) and oddly enough in IE8 when I close the RichText Editor (which opens within a lightbox), I am unable to select any text on the document. This is a peculiar case and happens when TextArea of RichText Editor already contains some text and I 'give' focus to the TextArea an...

OnFocus and OnBlur style changes works in Fire Fox but not in IE

Hi all, I have the following styles in my CSS: .on_focus { background-color:yellow; } .off_focus { background-color:white; } Then I have this input in my form: <label>Last Name</label><br/> <input id="l_name" class="text" type="text" name="l_name" maxlength="20" onfocus="this.className='on_focus'" onbl...

The state information is invalid for this page and might be corrupted.

Hi Guys I am receiving the following error when browsing my asp.net page in internet explorer while in firefox mozilla everything works fine. I have tried different approaches as I believe there is a problem with VIEWSTATE as to - <pages enableViewStateMac="false" > - <pages enableViewState="false"> - <pages viewStateEncryptionMode...

Is it possible to detect Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration in javascript?

Is there any method to tell from javascript if the browser has "enhanced security configuration" enabled? I keep running into problems with certain controls not working from within dynamically loaded content. This only happens with browsers running on Windows Server 2003/2008 systems - even when I add the server to the "trusted" zone. ...

mouse pointer jumps to upper left corner when opening a new explorer window using watin

Hi all, Every time I create a new WatiN IE instance the mouse pointer jumps to the upper left corner of the screen and the focus switches to the new window. I want the application to run the background so I've set the option for the new window to not to be visible: Settings.Instance.MakeNewIeInstanceVisible = false; But the mouse j...

IE Developer Tool: do I have the network view ?

hi, I need to see the loaded resources of my webpage from IE8 Developer Tool (to be clear: the equivalent of the tab "Net" in Firebug). But I cannot find it. Does it exist ? thanks ...

Adding to File Menu in IE

How can I add items to the file menu in IE ? Is it at all possible ? I know we can add to context menu, help menu, toolbars and in Explorer bars. But can we add to the file menu or edit menu ? ...

Set data on text nodes in IE with javascript

Hi, i have created a script to associate data to dom nodes, something like the jQuery.data method. Basically the script sets a property on the node that is the key of an object that will contain the data of every node, but in IE 7 setting a property on a text node throws an error: var a=document.createElement("div"); a.test="test"; aler...

XML reading using jQuery is not working in ie6 and ie8

XML reading using jQuery is not working in ie6 and ie8. i've used the below code.. the alert is not coming in ie8, ie6, i've not tested with other internet explorer versions. $(document).ready(function() { $.ajax({ type: "GET", url: "xml/contextMenu.xml", dataType: "xml", success: function(xml) { ...

xhtml <object> problem with explorer

I have an html page with this code <object data="ciao.xhtml" width="100%" height="100%" type="application/xhtml+xml"> </object> ciao.xhtml contain a well formed xhtml with svg embedded. It work well in chrome and firefox but when i test it on explorer i don't see enything ...

Problem hiding Internet Explorer in WatiN, even when using Settings.Instance.MakeNewIeInstanceVisible = false

This question is more of a follow-up to this one: Hiding Internet Explorer when WatiN is run Like the person who asked that original question, I also want to stop IE from being shown when my WatiN tests are running, but even when using this setting in a seemingly correct manner (code snippet below), it still ends up showing an empty IE ...

InnerHTML/outerHTML in IE doesn't reflect checkbox state except in quirks mode

I am currently battling an IE JavaScript/DOM bug (what fun) and it has truly stumped me. The code in question copies some checkboxes into a form and needs to maintain their checked state. Problem is, IE (specifically IE8, though I'm guessing others as well) doesn't want to do that. I've narrowed down the bug itself to a very small tes...

IE version of Firefox's Live HTTP Headers

Is there any free equivalent of Firefox's Live HTTP Headers for IE? Proxy servers are okay, provided they are free. ...