internet-explorer

Libraries to Minimize differences between IE & Firefox

are there any libraries out there to minimize the differences of the behavior between IE and firefox... or there is someways to achieve that.... if not then what things in HTML & CSS & JavaScript & jQuery i should be looking put for that can cause cross browser compatibility issues... my concerns are Firefox and IE ...

Is it possible to use the IE connection settings from a .NET application

I have a .NET application (WPF but that doesn't really matter) running on Windows 7 (x86). I want to connect to the internet from my application to call a web service. When there is a wifi connection, I want to use that. If there is no wifi connection, I want to automatically connect to a GPRS connection setting defined in the OS (e.g. i...

Forcing no-cache for internet explorer over HTTPS with HTTP response headers?

So, I recently found this little gem. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323308 Essentially, IE doesn't haven't Cache-Control: no-cache properly over HTTPs, which breaks the download. However, I need to disable caching for a number of responses across my application which hit the same IO write path, which I can easily control. Is there ...

HTML/DOM: What is standards equivalent of scrollHeight?

For nearly a decade i've been using: document.body.scrollHeight to return the "ideal" height of the browser window. This worked fine when i was forcing Internet Explorer into quirks mode, by using a quirks-mode doctype: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> Now i want to opt into standards mode, except the...

IE7 dropdown menu appears behind image

I have created this css3 dropdown menu that appears behind the image when I mouse over the dropdown menu, and I have tried to figure it out. But cant for the life of me. Any help is greatly appeciated you can take a look at it here. ...

jQuery outerHeight returning incorrect value IE

I am attempting to get the height of an element on a page. I get the expected value (700px or so) in FF and Webkit on Mac, but I am getting a value of 0 in IE8. I haven't tried earlier versions of IE yet. html: <section> <article> ... </article> javascript: var height = myElement.outerHeight(true); There are a number of t...

Major IE8 positioning issues part 2

Hello, I have a social network for the cystic fibrosis community. There is a section (s) where you can leave comments, and reply to the comments. This is generated with html,css,and jquery and works amazingly on FF,Safari, and Chrome, as you can guess, it has major quirks on IE8. It works as it should when the comment is small, or ther...

Rails UJS rendering js.erb template in IE

I have a RoR app running rails 2.3.8 which makes use of the Rails 3 style UJS to bind data-remote forms instead of using form_for_remote, the controller responds with a js.erb file from the server. Works beautifully in FF, Chrome, and Safari, but when run in IE it prompts you to save a file and does not execute the JS. My research so f...

Internet Explorer 7 strange behaviour for drop down list

Created a very simple HTML/CSS drop down navigation using nested unordered lists. Works great with Firefox, Chrome, IE8 but in IE7 the sub navigation doesn't sit below the parent, instead it sits below parent to the right. For an example and HTML/ CSS have a look here http://webfe.omega.studiocoast.com.au/ I'm stumped! ...

Jquery ajax() call fails in IE8

I have the following code for submitting data using ajax from forms of class ajax. this works perfectly in Firefox, Safari and Chrome but fails in IE. ajax: function() { $('form.ajax').live('submit', function() { var form_ajax = $(this); $.ajax({ url: form_ajax.attr('action'), data: form_ajax.s...

Problem with using blueprint css framework with IE.

Hi, I am using blueprint and am using sticky footer(cssstickyfooter), it works fine with FF & Chrome. By default there is 10px padding on the either side, but with IE 8, there is no padding on the left, and the padding on the right increases 20px (double of 10px). <style type="text/css"> html, body {height: 100%;} #wrap...

CSS in Internet Explorer: list-style-image and float:left issue

I have an issue with list-style-image property in CSS with Internet Explorer 8 If I set li { float:left; list-style-image: none; } each menu item is above each other. If I remove list-style-image:none, they are perfectly positioned instead, but they have the dot image. (see images) ...

IE 6 7 Privacy report

I am working on a site that is triggering the privacy report symbol to appear in IE. I am using a twitter plugin that displays some of my latest tweets. website link I think it is this code that is triggering it, but not sure. (This code is in jquery.tools.min.js @ line 311) function build_url() { var proto = ('https:' == document.l...

Max div height in Internet Explorer

How can I have a div of static 60px height in Internet Explorer? ...

Conditional Comment to run for all browsers except IE 8 and below

how can i write a conditional comment for scripts that should run for all browsers except IE 8 and below? i saw Conditional comment for 'Except IE8' ? but how do i adapt it to include scripts files not inline scripts? ...

Display Jquery UI Dialog on current mouse position, bug in IE 8

I am using Jquery UI Dialog and its working fine in FF/Chrome/Opera but there's some issue with IE, I am having latest version of JQuery UI 1.8.5 and all the workarounds setting position:absolute etc are not working at all, What I need is if my anchor tag is near to end of the browser window and there's not enough space for the ui dial...

In IE media player activex object plays only one video

I have Java as back-end. For videos I'm using media player activex object in IE. When I open first time it palys ok, file extention is ".ogg". But when it is opened second time it doesn't plays any more. Ativex object element is created as many times as video look button is pressed and is destroyed after user closes modal window.(Ext.Wi...

Difference between .net WebBrowser and IE

I have IE8 installed on my computer and have been working on automating some tasks in a simple c# application with WebBrowser. Supposedly WebBrowser and IE have to render web pages in the similar way, while in reality I'm stuck with bugs in my application. To trace the problem I've created small winforms project with single WebBrowser ...

IE: Jquery slidetoggle hides content when it must be shown

So i made this webpage with a photo gallery I have a which serves as the gallery caption. WHen clicked it should show the gallery (done with the slidetoggle from jquery) This works. EXCEPT (ofcourse) in IE (ONLY when the documents mode is in IE9) There are a few other problems with other IE versions but those are for later. So the we...

ASP.Net HyperLink control enabled propery is not working in IE 8 compatibility mode?

We have following ASP.Net 2.0 HyperLink Control: asp:HyperLink ID="FolderLink" runat="server" CssClass="cursor" Enabled="false" ImageUrl="/_layouts/1033/images/selectlink.gif" ToolTip="Folder Links"> On server side, following script is attached: FolderLink.Attributes.Add("onclick", "javascript:setURL('Control');"); Issue is that Hype...