internet-explorer

Skype links in IE

They are ruining the page I'm making. Anyone know a way of turning them off? It ends up making the text look odd and blurry: I've tried obfuscating them as so: +44 (<span>0) 1234</span> 567 890 but Skype still recognises them. I am aware that is a plugin, just wondered if anyone knew of any meta tags or equivalent. ...

Piece of html/css that looks ok in firefox but not in IE [solved]

I have looked at this now for some while but somehow I am missing something. I have a site that looks ok in firefox and chrome but in IE the first div gets "split" to the right. It seems as if IE takes the first block element inside the div and places that in the next column. the page with the error: http://populair.eu : in IE you see it...

Why does IE8 display a whitespace GAP between my menu bar and page content?

The page in question Please open the page in whatever browser you normally use and confirm that the menu bar immediately precedes the map. Next, open the page in IE8 and see that it inserts whitespace (roughly the height of the menu bar). Even if you use IE7, the whitespace doesn't appear. This has been bothering me for a while and I...

IE stops frequently.......

when I am on a radio station contest page,and I click on a particular bonus code collector,IE stops and is automatically started in 5 seconds ,this is getting awfully annoying.I am very tempted to change browsers this week. thank you and I will hopefully soon see if I get a response. ...

IE/Chrome: are DOM tree elements global variables here?

Working on an idea for a simple HTMLElement wrapper I stumbled upon the following for IE and Chrome: for a given HTMLElement with ID in the DOM tree, it is possible to retrieve the div using its ID as variable name. So for a div like <div id="example">some text</div> in IE8 and Chrome you can do: alert(example.innerHTML); //=> 'some...

semi-transparent images for all browsers ?

hi, I need to use many semi-transparent images for my website. I was wondering what's the most convenient format, considering I want the semi-transparency perfectly working on internet explorer 6-7-8 as well. Thanks ...

Bug when posting a form from within a frameset in internet explorer

Hi, The scenario is as follows. We have 2 servers; one 'old' running old webshop (asp, on shared host) and one new running new webshop and new website (php, on our own box). Lets say old server responds to dom1.com and new server responds to dom2.com. Now we want the new shop to be shown when we go to dom1.com, thus we have made a fr...

Border-Spacing problem in IE7

I've a table on where I need a spacing between two rows of table. I did it in following way. table.fltrTbl { margin:0px; padding:0px; border-collapse:separate; border-spacing:0 11px; } table.fltrTbl td { vertical-align:middle; padding-right:14px; padding-left:0; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; ...

Installing BHO for current user only

I have a Browser Helper Object that I would like to be installable by limited (non-administrator) users. Unfortunately, it seems that the COM object must be registered in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and it must be listed as BHO there as well. The respective HKEY_CURRENT_USER keys don't seem to have any effect. I also tried some well-known extens...

Is position:fixed working well in Internet Explorer 7-8-9 ?

I was wondering if position:fixed is working well in Microsoft browsers, before to start to use it. thanks ...

IE8 and JQuery's trim()

Hello all, I am making use of trim() like so: if($('#group_field').val().trim()!=''){ Where group_field is an input element of type text. This works in Firefox but when I try it on IE8 it gives me this error: Message: Object doesn't support this property or method When I remove the trim(), it works fine on IE8. I thought the way I...

Jquery .hide() and .show() won't work in IE7\8

I am trying to .hide or .show IMG and DIV in IE, and it won't work for some reason. anyone knows about such issues? thanks ...

IE6 input button image background

Is it possible to make your own background image for input type="button" for IE6? ...

'SWFAddress' is null or not an object - IE6 and 7

I am having trouble with getting SWFAddress work in IE. It works nicely in Firefox and safari, but I get "'SWFAddress' is null or not an object" in IE 6 and 7 (works fine in 8). Can anyone suggest what I may need to do to get this working? ...

Why does my table border show up in Firefox and Chrome but not Internet Explorer?

I have some basic CSS on a table and I cannot get a border to display in IE6, IE7, or IE8. The border shows up in Chrome and Firefox. Here's the CSS: #infoTable { width:500px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-width:thin !important; border-style:solid !important; } #infoTable td { max-w...

Whose Bug Is This - IE or Windows/.NET?

When I run this and then go into the task manager and manually end one of the iexplore instances (there are 2 presumably since IE now also uses multiple processes) I see an error pop-up box that says a tab has been recovered. However, iexplore itself is invisible because of my process settings. Accordingly, I don't think that that pop-...

IE 8 doesn't scroll to fragment on initial page load

I'm having a problem with IE where it doesn't scroll to a fragment (#foo on the URL) when the page loads. The anchor for the fragment is part of the base HTML, it isn't dynamic or anything. The page is pretty heavy. If I go into the location bar and hit enter, it scrolls to the anchor as expected (and as observed in other browsers). ...

Invalid Argument in Internet Explorer

When viewing a site I am working on in any version of IE, I get a done with errors message and the only thing that seems to load is the background. Really not sure how to go about fixing this one, I am not even sure what the error means. The error is an invalid argument on line 117. It works fine in Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. Her...

Conflict with IE and JQuery mouseover and mouseout events

I have an animation that works PERFECTLY in firefox, and is completely broken in IE. By default I set the opacity of a button to .4, so its partially invisible. Then, when you move over a certain area, the button is supposed to return to normal full color. As I said, it works great in ff, but in ie, when you mouseover IT DISAPPEARS!! Not...

IE7 content is below container

on this site, http://dncminneapolis2012.com/new2 the content (where it says Minneapolis 2012 Democratic National Convention) is hidden beneath another div in IE7. Can anyone tell me how to fix this? Everything works great in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari ...