internet-explorer

IE css bug : it appends 'padding-left' to the end of 'background-image' ??

Hi, I got a weird bug. In my .css file I have the following rule: .conf-view a { padding-left: 10px; background-image: url("images/bullet-green.gif"); background-position: center left; background-repeat: no-repeat; } The problem is that IE somehow interprets it like this: .conf-view A /* NOTE - this is copied from th...

jquery dialog without a form

I have two problems. I am developing web application in Lotus, and Lotus likes to take control of the situation and insert code where it sees fit. I am using Jquery UI to open a modal dialog window. If I simply open and close the dialog, then try to submit the parent form, I get a __click is not an object. When I took a closer look a...

Script elements written with document.write in a window opened with window.open are not executed in IE8 on Windows 7

I'm running into an issue that seems to only appear on Windows 7. It seemed to work fine in IE8 on a different version of Windows. Basically, I'm creating a new window with window.open(), then using document.write() to write the contents of that new window, which contains script includes. In IE, these scripts are not being executed pr...

It seems that "IE=EmulateIE7" will also make "<!--[if lt IE 8]>" be true?

It seems that when the webpage has <meta content='IE=EmulateIE7' http-equiv='X-UA-Compatible' /> so that IE 8 will emulate IE 7, then later in the webpage, when there is <!--[if lt IE 8]> <link href="http://www.example.com/stylesheets/compiled/ie.css" type="text/css" /> <![endif]--> then it will also be loading ie.css? That is...

Append and bind click not working on IE (jQuery)

Im using this short code for adding some more fields to an online shopping cart, they work great in FF but get broken on IE, any help would be aprecciated $(document).ready(function () { $('#agregar').bind('click', function (){ $('#tabla').append("<tr><td><input type='text' name='codigo[]' class='box' /></td> <td><input type='text' ...

On IE 7, jQuery's fadeIn() and fadeOut() requires the user to move the mouse around the area to see the update, why?

I have some jQuery's fadeIn() and fadeOut() and it works well in IE 7 and IE 8 (with the IE 7 Compatibility Mode) -- It works perfectly on Firefox, Chrome, and Safari as well. However, some part of it will not show any update of elements fading out and new elements fading in, until I move the mouse around that area -- then the whole reg...

How to set the color to the select box and its border in firefox ?

I want to set the color to the border of the select box and its contents. I am able to see the color to the border of select box in IE. But I cannot see the border color in Firefox. I want to set the color to the border to the select box items also. Is there any way to do this ? To set the border color to the IE I am using the followin...

Cufon delay in Internet Explorer

Does anybody have any idea why Cufon has a second delay upon loading the page in Internet Explorer (all versions) - http://www.consolidatemydebt.co.uk I've got <script type="text/javascript"> Cufon.now(); </script> right before the closing </body> tag also. Thanks ...

How can I change the font color of a disabled SELECT element? (Works in Firefox but not in IE)

How can I change the font color of a disabled SELECT element in IE? No matter what I tried it stays gray. I was able to change the background from gray to white but the text inside the disabled SELECT stays the same. What works perfectly for Firefox has no effect in terms of font color in IE (in this case IE8). You can see the latest sit...

CSS zoom property

Sitepoint reference says Internet Explorer for Windows versions 5.5 and above support the non-standard property zoom, which sets the magnification scale of an element. There’s no CSS3 equivalent to this property (as yet). How can I achieve this zoom effect in standard browsers? Any jQury plugins available? ...

onchange / onclick in a checkbox doesn't work in IE

Hello everyone, i have the following code, which works perfectly in chrome/ff: chkbx_send_demo.onchange = function(){ if(sel_template.selectedIndex <= 0 && chkbx_send_demo.checked == true){ alert("Choose a Template"); sel_template.selectedIndex = 1; } ...

how to create $.ajax() for internet explorer

Hallo all , i have wirtten an ajax request to the database server and the return datatype is xml but the IE is unable to render it. but on chrome it works.what could possibly be wrong in my codeActually i get no response for the the server.the element name i am using in my xml doc is ,,, and notthing more. so i really donotttt know whe...

selectSingleNode works but not selectNodes

Javascript: var req=xmlDoc.responseXML.selectSingleNode("//title"); alert(req.text); as expected, returns the text of the first "title" node. but this var req=xmlDoc.responseXML.selectNodes("//title"); alert(req.text); returns "undefined." The following: var req=xmlDoc.responseXML.selectNodes("//title").length; alert(req); ret...

Sometimes alert() makes IE do things which IE rejects to do without it...

It is already a second time when IE causes problems on totally blank space (not merely but totally). Then when I'm trying to put an alert box somewhere in between the not working code, all of a sudden, it starts to execute the whole logic after alert!.. If I remove alert() it goes blank again. What is this?? Has anyone anywhere ever enc...

How to query XML elements from a local XML file in Internet Explorer using jQuery?

I am building a single HTML page for use in a touch-screen kiosk. I have an external XML file named data.xml which resides in the same directory as my HTML page. I was able to use jQuery to load the external XML file, parse it and build some HTML dynamically on page load without any problems in Firefox and Chrome. But then I tried it in ...

Firefox and IE aren't displaying "<script ... > ... </script>" provided from PHP.

Hey everyone, I am having a problem with a website I'm trying to build; basically I have a class that I call from my header file that loads all of the link and script tags. The link tags show up across all browsers, but the script tags only show up in safari and chrome, they do no show up in firefox or IE. <script type='text/javascript...

TabIndex control in a non compliant html page

I have an html page where I cannot put a DOCTYPE (I am not allowed to). Plus, I need to make it work on IE 8! Then there is a checkbox + label thing. For example, this: <input id="daffodils" type="checkbox" title="daffodil factsheet" name="daffodils" value="checkbox" tabindex=2> <label for="daffodils">Daffodils</label> <inpu...

How do I make IE8 show all images loaded with ajax?

I load a bunch of images by replacing the contents of a div with the appropriate image tags. On Safari and Firefox this always works 100%. On IE8 (quite possibly also in lower versions) the images get loaded most of the time, or at least most of them but some are missing. They are just not there. There is no image not loaded red cross ...

Equivalent of "parentNode" in internet explorer

I wrote some code that modifies the images on a webpage. Works with firefox and safari. But tryingto get it to work with Internet explorer has got me stumped. What is the equivalent of "parentNode" in explorer? Or how does one trick it into working? images = document.getElementsByTagName('img') parms = {}; for (a=0;a < images.lengt...

How to get selected textnode in contentEditable div in IE?

I am attempting to create a simple texteditor with HTML5 contenteditable on a div tag. As you know, selected text is handled quite differently in IE. this.retrieveAnchorNode = function() { var anchorNode; if (document.selection) anchorNode = document.selection.createRange().parentElement(); else if (docume...