internet-explorer

Is it possible for the .NET WebBrowser control to use IE9?

I realise it's an early release and unstable. I wouldn't dream of swapping out the default webbrowser control for IE9 in any other project, but in this case I specifically need IE9 to compare alongside other versions. I'd like to have the .NET WebBrowser control use IE9 instead of the default version of IE on the machine. I have full co...

user can log back in in IE after logging out by hitting back button

I am using a PHP login script that challenges user for username & password. Once authenticated program stores a session value. On logout, session value is set to blanks. Here is the problem: In IE 8 (not Firefox), user can hit back button a few times until the screen which shows "Web Page has expired" message. This is likely the logi...

IE ignores padding when white-space: nowrap

Ok so I have a span with a background that is positioned in the left side, and a 20px padding-left to keep text from being rendered on top of the image... pretty standard. I also set white-space:nowrap on the span to stop the line from wrapping. The span is in a div about 200px wide. If the text in the span is long enough to exceed the...

Using "bottom: expression (0+ ... ;" for IE 6 Fixed Positioning

This seems like I'm just missing some syntax or getting it wrong, but on an ie6 specific style-sheet this locks it to the top of the view-port and stays fixed despite scrolling: top: expression(0+((e=document.documentElement.scrollTop)?e:document.body.scrollTop)+'px'); But, this does not lock it to the bottom in the same manner: bot...

jQuery submit handler for form with single input field doesn't trigger on IE

I have a form with an input element but no submit button. I use jQuery to attach an onsubmit handler: $('#tickerbox-form').submit(function (ev) { alert('submit'); // I have other code that actually does something... return false; }); I want the (anonymous function) handler to be invoked when the Enter button is pressed in the ...

Open and Wait untill IE is closed in batch file

Hi, I want to open IE from a batch file and wait untill it is closed before going to the next line of the batch file. How to do this? BTW iexplore command seems to be not working in Windows 7 command line. Any idea why? Thanks... ...

IE won't toggle element

I have this javascript on my page to toggle a div and switching between two images <script type="text/javascript"> fuction toggleArchiv() { document.getElementById('cat').toggle(); var image = document.getElementById('arrow'); if (image.src == 'bullet_arrow_down.png') { image.src = 'bullet_arrow_up.png'; } else { ...

Pop window javascript in not working in IE, pls help

I have a page in which there is a link on clicking of which a pop up window needs to be displayed, this works fine in firefox, but it does not work in IE, infact it displays me http 404 error in pop window below the javascriptscript and the link with which i execute the javascript is given url: <a href="javascript:NewWindow('artworkspec...

Stack overflow in Internet Explorer

Yesterday I came across an error which I was puzzled by and had a little laugh at. I opened my website in Internet explorer (I use chrome 99% of the time) and got a "Stack Overflow" error. I was just wondering is this a bad thing because when I open it in chrome or firefox it loads fine. Also does this happen to anyone else? the we...

CSS Compatibility on IE. Box shadows

I'm creating a website and I need to style some boxes like this image here. Although, their height aren't fixed for it's dynamic content I used -webkit-border-imageand -moz-image-borderand it worked perfectly. Unfortunately, IE is a bad bad guy and I wanted it to appear properly. I thought about using CSS3 with box-shadow and -webkit-gr...

How many hours per week do you spend fixing IE related bugs?

We are trying to estimate this: If you are a web developer, how many hours per week do you spend working on IE related issues and bugs, where other browsers dont find any problems at all. We're trying to find out if developers still waste a lot of time on it. I know it's difficult to estimate, but even % would help.. I spend ~3h each...

IE secure and unsecure items issue

Hi all, I'm trying to get rid of the error pop-up window that appears in IE saying "page contains both secure and non-secure items". I have made sure all the links are pointing to https:// rather than http://. I have also looked at the fiddler and firebug logs to see that all the requests are being made to https:// links only. Here's...

Page load time differences between IE and Firefox

We have a very unsual problem. We have an aspx page that loads in Firefox inside 3 seconds. In IE8 it takes 20 seconds. This is consistent across a number of PCs. We have changed the page so that the only thing output is HTML and images - there is no javascript (the page as designed uses a lot of jquery for accordion style behviour and w...

jQuery, IE and invalid argument

EDIT: OP here. Well, the problem is at the jQuery.JS archive. I just downloaded the last one, uncompressed, and the error changed to line 4619 character 4. I went to that line and there's an '}' symbol LOL... did i mention i hate internet explorer? I have no idea how to fix this, it seems to be a bug within the framework :S /EDIT ...

Z-Index in Internet Explorer

I am trying to get the z-index to work in my html code. I have looked this up at several places, and it says that I need to add a position to my my div. Which I already have done and it still isn't working. Below is the css and the html that I used for the z-index. Any help that you would like to give would be greatly appreciated. CSS:...

Internet Explorer Javascript Image Problem

I following the book "DOM Scripting" by Jeremy Keith and I have hit a wall in trying to get a small image gallery to render correctly in Internet Explorer 6/7. I have 4 thumbnails which load in a placeholder when clicked using the following code: function showPic(whichpic) { if (!document.getElementById("placeholder")) return true;...

Problem loading html with flash page using https in Internet Explorer.

I have a html paga which loads a flash(flex) swf file. Using https it loads successfully with Chrome, Safari and Firefox, but not with Internet Explorer. Another page, a simple aspx page, does load in Internet Explorer using https (and no flash in it). Haven't found anything so far on the internet to solve this... Anyone? UPDATE: When...

Slow server script makes IE stall

I am working on a php web application which involves calls to 3rd party web services. Recently I've run into problems because some of the web services are slow and/or time out. (When this happens the service throws an error after 5-6 minutes, which is handled by the web application) However, the problem arise that while waiting for the...

ZK: OnOK event in Internet Explorer

Hi, I am using framework ZK to develop web applications and they have to be usable also in Internet Explorer 6+. I have registered event OnOK on the Textbox. This event should be emitted when key ENTER is pressed. In Firefox this works pretty well but in IE it doesn't. Can anybody help me how to fix it, please? I'll be very greatful I...

rounded corners IE and background images...

hi all I have an item in my page thus: <div class="rounded"> <h2>Heading Text</h2> <ul> <li><a href="/default.aspx">Summary link</a></li> <li><a href="/default.aspx">Summary link</a></li> <li><a href="/default.aspx">Summary link</a></li> </ul> <p>or... some text or whatever</p> </div> the styles associated with this block...