internet-explorer

Selenium issues with IE tests

When I change mt test browser to IE using the following line of code: self.selenium = selenium("localhost", 4444, "*iexplore", "http://www.mydomain.net/") I get the following error: Exception: Failed to start new browser session: java.lang.RuntimeException: SystemRoot apparently not set! It works perfectly fine using firefox and Ch...

Weird IE behavior: currentStyle returns null

I am experiencing weird behavior in IE8 which appears to be an IE bug but I am not sure. When accessing currentStyle field from an element it returns null. If I view its properties in the watch window I can see that it is defined and I can view its members. It appears that if I call attributes before hand then it will return the correct...

Does Internet Explorer support pushState and replaceState?

Does anybody know if Internet Explorer supports the history.pushState() and history.replaceState() methods for manipulating browser history? Considering these are just being implemented in Firefox 4, I'm not holding my breath, but does anybody know if they're coming in IE9? ...

i am getting java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out exception in IE 7 but not in IE 8

Hi, If i use IE7 to access my application & do some save or delete operations i am getting "java.net.ConnectException" but if i use IE 8, application is going smoothly. using of IE 7 is mandatory for the users i have no other go now. Please guide me to solve the problem. Quick answers would be deeply appreciated. Thank You, Pruthvi ...

sniffing browsers in a post sniff world, can I still use jquery.browser?

hey guys Post Sniffing Rules Although browser sniffing used to be quite popular, it's now gone out of fashion (for good reasons) and has been deprecated (if not dropped) by popular libraries such as jquery. The better way is to do feature detection. Exception To The New Rule However, there are times when you might be targeting (for ...

IE doesn't send POST data

IE 6 and any other version of IE stopped sending POST data since some undefined moment in the past. Reinstalling doesn't help. xdebug shows empty $_POST, profiler echoes empty array. FF and Opera work fine on the same PC at the same time. Case is WinXP, IE6, IE8, CodeIgniter 1.7.2, Apache 2, PHP 5.2.4 ...

Anchor link not working in IE

I used some div and ul to display some items in list as shown bellow. In Firefox and chrome all the links works fine. But in IE link 'All Items' and link 'Information' does not work.I have found some clues like due to 'margin-left' property it is occurring.If I remove 'margin-left' from that specific anchor link it works, but alignment i...

Javascript's setExpression is the biggest problem for me. Any solution to overcome this.

I am trying to freeze my gridview header for last 2 days and got this link and many other links too provided to me on Stackoverflow as well as from googling. This worked fine when i used it on IE 6,7 and under compatibility mode in IE8 but in normal mode, this code is not working. This line is giving me an error. I want to implement thi...

Odd glitch causes content to move when hovering over an image

I have a problem with my site in Internet Explorer 7/8/9. Here's how I reproduce it: Go to http://pieterdedecker.be/. Hover over the fourth icon under "Programming: software and sites". Slowly move the mouse towards the thumbnail with the candles. When the mouseover is triggered, the image moves down a couple of pixels. Here's the od...

Find out if browser is IE6 or before

Possible Duplicate: Detect Internet Explorer 6 or below in jQuery Is there a way of detecting if the browser is pre IE7 (so IE6 or before) using javascript or jQuery? I found a similar question on here where the answer was basically "don't do that". Well, I don't care, I still want to :) ...

How does Internet Explorer render tables?

How does Internet Explorer go about rendering HTML Tables versus the way Firefox or Chrome may render tables on a page? One thing I've noticed is that using a table with in a jQuery Accordion doesn't play well in IE, but works great in Firefox/Chrome. And since it is not an issue of the javascript being written incorrectly I was wonderi...

jQuery animate not working in chrome/safari/ie

I have written a few lines of jQuery to animate a div to the left/right depending on mouse movements $(".galleryNav").mousemove(function(e){ $("#status").html(e.pageX +', '+e.pageY); if(e.pageX > 1100 && e.pageX < 1170){ $(".galleryNav").animate({marginLeft:"-60px"},{queue: false, duration: 450}); } if(e.pageX > 410 && e.p...

Dynamic width workaround for IE

I have a jQuery drop down navigation that adjusts its width in accordance with the longest item in the list. This works perfectly in Firefox and Safari but for some reason in IE the width is extended the entire length of the page. If I set a fixed width the problem is sort of solved, however then I need to worry about updating the width ...

problems with div height and width in IE

Hi, I have the code below which is a div used for naviagtion its placed at the top of the page inside another div. It works in every browser I have tested in but IE 8/9. CSS: #nav { text-align: center; background-color: #363A36; color: #ffffff; height: 25px; padding: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 60%; margin-t...

What Internet Explorer settings could cause IE7/IE8 to not load css?

We have received isolated reports of IE7 & IE8 not loading/parsing the css from our website built on asp.net 4 and hosted on iis 6. One user recently sent us screen shots to confirm the problem. They tried upgrading from IE7 to IE8 which did not fix the problem. Firefox installed on the same computer would load the website/css no...

IE 6 is crashing when printing from my web application

When clicking on print button the second time from my app, IE 6.0 is crashing. Steps to reproduce: 1) Click on print Button and cancel the print dialog. 2) Click on print again. IE 6.0 crashes. It works fine in IE 7 & 8. Below is the stack trace i got from WinDbg. 0:000> g (730.9e0): Access violation - code c0000005 (first chance)...

IE input.value on page refresh

Run this in IE 7,8 or 9. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset=utf-8> <title>IE input value</title> </head> <body> <form action=""> <input id="test" type="text" name="username"> </form> <script> var input = document.getElementById("test"); alert(input.value); setTimeout(function(...

IE not recognizing post data using LoadVars from flash inside a frameset

This code is being run from a frameset in IE8. When the new window is opened, the form data is not being recognized. It appears that the http header, "content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded", is not being passed into IE and this is causing the post data not to be processed. The data is there, IE is just doing nothing with it. T...

IE 7/8 Not rendering styles for some elements

I have a stylesheet where it contains my styles, but when I load the page the some styles are not being parsed by IE. If I go my stylesheet, it contains my styles that are supposed to be in the element. Funny thing is that everything after this element (the element that didn't have the styles) didn't contain the styles, everything before...

jquery prepend working in all borwsers except IE7

Arrg! My site (in progress) is working great so far in all browsers I've tested to-date (firefox, safari, chrome, and IE8) but not in IE7 (I dont know about IE6 or other browsers) .... I'm not positive but i think the issue has to do with the use of prepend() in my jQuery. the main issues are the main menu (should show up in the blue hor...