internet-explorer

In-text hyperlinks shown by Internet Explorer without the following space. What can be the reason? YUI?

I've a problem which is most likely some ugly CSS mistake, but I just can't spot the solution (and a few changes I tried did not help). Some of in-text hyperlinks (not all!) are shown by Internet Explorer without the following space. here is the example See the link WatchBot just below the Rationale title (and a few similar links deep...

jquery ajax request failing in IE

The following ajax call is failing in IE. $.ajax({ url:"{{SITE_URL}}/content/twitter.json", dataType:"json", error:function(xhr, status, errorThrown) { alert(errorThrown+'\n'+status+'\n'+xhr.statusText); }, success:function(json) { ...Snip... } }); The error function returns Undefined parsererror OK...

Is There Something Wrong with IE's CSS Top And Left?

The following jQuery code works just fine for me with Safari, Opera, FF2, and FF3. It positions a busy DIV (with an animated busy GIF) on top of a FORM element on my web page. The problem is that in IE6 and IE7, it gets width and height properly, but doesn't seem to get top and left properly. What's the catch? var nH = $('#' + sForm).at...

IE downloads and installs CAB dialog popup upon every page refresh

I have a signed cab on an aspx page. I am seeing the following inconsistent behavior. Any insights would be highly appreciated. On some machines, the cab is downloaded and installed on every page refresh. On few of those machines, the IE "install cab" dialog pops up on every page refresh, while on the others it pops up only once. A...

How do you use the ClearCookies method in WatiN?

I am just starting with WatiN and I want to make sure any cookies i have from previous sessions on the site are cleared off before I run the tests. The clear cookies command results in an exception that seems to be at the COM level. Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentException: Value does not fall within the expected range. at ...

IE CSS bug: table border showing div with visibility: hidden, position: absolute

The issue I have a <div> on a page which is initially hidden with a visibility: hidden; position: absolute. The issue is that if a <div> hidden this way contains a table which uses border-collapse: collapse and has a border set on it cells, that border still shows "through" the hidden <div> on IE. Try this for yourself by running the c...

Building a vertical IE Explorer Bar (Band Object) (like Favorites Panel)

Hi all, I am trying to build a vertical explorer bar (band object) in IE7 that "sticks" across all tabs (similar to the "Favorites" bar). In case you don't know I'm talking about, open up IE7 and go to View->Explorer Bar->Research to open the Research bar. Open a new tab in the same window and notice that the research bar is not displa...

What's the best way to debug Javascript on IE ?

What's the best way to debug Javascript on IE ? ...

Microsoft Office Web Components IE Security Issue

I am displaying Microsoft Office Web Components (Microsoft Data Access Controls) on my Sharepoint site. Clients need to enable "Access Data Sources Across Domains" in IE in order to view the page. Unfortunately, clients cannot modify their IE settings. Is there anyway I can get these components to display? ...

Ajax updater not working in internet explorer

Hi I have a problem with ajax updater that i couldnt solve. I have this code Servicii It works perfectly in firefox but in internet explorer it does nothing.Also if i open the site from my harddrive it works but it only works for the link once then i have to reload the whole page... Does anybody have an ideea on how to solve this probl...

Does Low Pro Prototype DOM Builder work in IE?

Dan Webb's Low Pro UJS extension to Prototype offers the following elegant DOM Builder: var listItem = $li({ id : 'item-1' }, $strong("Some text") ); // returns a node equivalent to: <li id="item-1"><strong>Some text</strong></li> $('a_list').appendChild(listItem); While this works like a dream for u...

Local html file AJAX Call and jQuery Woes

I'm working on a offline version of a website using jQuery and some xml files. I'm running in to a problem in jQuery when I do a $.ajax call on a xml file jQuery throws a error. When I look at the error I can tell its loading the XML file because its in the error's responceText property. It seams to work just fine in Firefox. This is h...

Element.appendChild() chokes in IE

I have the following javascript: css = document.createElement('style'); css.setAttribute('type', 'text/css'); css_data = document.createTextNode(''); css.appendChild(css_data); document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(css); for some reason, in IE only, it chokes on "css.appendChild(css_data);" Giving the error: "...

IE web browser control res:// usage

I'm using the IWebBrowser2 control in my app and I have various html files that are stored as resources in the exe. To load these up I use the "res://" protocol. The problem is that with certain versions of IE the pages no longer load up, and instead just shows "Action Canceled, Internet Explorer was unable to link to the page requested....

How to prevent scrollbars from overlapping the content?

I have a block of preformatted code (<pre>) which overflows horizontally so there is an horizontal scrollbar to allow the user to view the content. overflow: auto; However, in IE7 (maybe other IE versions), the scrollbar overlaps the last line of my content (which is especially irritating when there is just one line of content). I've...

Firefox and IE rendering same image differently!

This is an exact duplicate of: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/130161/ie6-issues-with-transparent-pngs Firefox: IE 6: The background for the image is transparent. Yet IE seems to screw it up. Any ideas? ...

Stopping IE from highlighting the first submit-button in a form

The expected behaviour on enter in a form seems to be undefined in the HTML 4.01 Specification while the HTML 5 specification says it should be the first submit button in the form. Internet Explorer (IE) highlights the first button in the form when the form has focus by adding a proprietary border or something. Other browsers do not ad...

Mouse coordinates in Internet Explorer

I have a map for my game, I have a script that on a click displays an alert of the mouse coordinates on the map. The map scale is 1 map unit to 2.5 pixels and the map starts at -600, 600 and goes down to 600, 1700. Thus I can't simply throw out the pixels of the mouse. I got it working (and was pretty happy about it) but alas IE (6) ha...

c# hosting a usercontrol in IE

Our web page is only available internally in our company and we am very intrested in being able to offer interactive .net usercontrols on our departments website in the .Net 2.0 enviorment. I have been successful with embeding the object as so: <object id="Object1" classid="http:EmbedTest1.dll#EmbedTest1.UserControl1" width="4...

Page_Load called in Firefox, but not IE

Hi, I've been thrown into an ASP.NET project and I've got a page which contains a control that is fetched via AJAX. The Page_Load function of the control does a little bit of logic necessary to get the correct values from the Query string. The problem is that the Page_Load function isn't called in IE. If I put a breakpoint in, I can ...