internet-explorer

Trouble programatically adding CSS to IE

Hi all, I have a bookmarklet which inserts a CSS stylesheet into the target DOM via a "link" tag (external stylesheet). Recently, this stopped working on Amazon.com, in Internet Explorer only. It works on other sites, and with other browsers (even on Amazon.com). The technique we're using to insert the stylesheet is pretty straightfo...

internet explorer 6 testing

Hi, Is there any way to test a website in IE6 on a computer that already has firefox and IE7 installed, without either: Using VM-ware Uninstalling IE7 and installing IE6 (if that's even possible) Cheers, Don Duplicate Possible to degrade from IE7 to IE6 for debuggin purposes? ...

Select dropdown with fixed width cutting off content in IE

The issue: Some of the items in the select require more than the specified width of 145px in order to display fully. Firefox behavior: clicking on the select reveals the dropdown elements list adjusted to the width of the longest element. IE6 & IE7 behavior: clicking on the select reveals the dropdown elements list restricted to 145px...

Connect remotely to WebDev.WebServer.exe

Developing an ASP.Net website. Running IE8. Need to test website under IE6. MultipleIE6 install broken by IE8 install (can't type in textboxes, yes I deleted cache, yes I re-registered the dll's). Created VPC running IE6. Can't connect to host WebDev.WebServer.exe. Is there any way to configure WebDev.WebServer.exe so that it will acc...

Troubleshoot IE6 + 7 only error message.

Hello again, I have built the site: www.bgarchitect.co.nz which was as much a learning experience in jQuery and CSS/xHTML but is also a real project and as such should work in most browsers (IE6 is still a problem but IE7 should really not have an issue here). Something that bugs me terribly is getting this error: which only happens...

How do I change the color of the text cursor in an input field in IE?

From what I saw, in Firefox and Chrome, the color of the text cursor in an input field changes to the value of the "color" css property. However in IE it has no effect whatsoever. Is there any way to achieve this effect in IE? ...

BHO - Attach event handler from worker thread

on DISPID_DOCUMENTCOMPLETE if I am attaching an onclick handler for a particular element in the DOM from a worker thread, then the event is not getting fired while clicking it, what might be the reason? this is working fine if I am attaching event handler from the main thread, but I want to do things asynchronously. I am using CoMarshal...

IHTMLTxtRange, TextRanges and knowing if the text is visible or not

In a winforms application, I am using the IHTMLTxtRange interface (in c#) created from the body element to wander through the text on a page and process each word i come across using the MoveStart and MoveEnd methods.This works fine. I then need to know if the text would actually be visible to the end user - this is where i then start g...

Prevent TinyMCE/Internet Explorer from converting URLs to links

I'm using TinyMCE to provide users the capability of simple text formatting (bold, italics, lists) on a textarea form field. Everthing is working properly except that in Internet Explorer (8 but I've read it happens on earlier versions), when users type a URL (e.g. www.google.com) it is automatically converted into an HTML link in the T...

Any recommendation for IE 6 / 7 Javascript Memory Inspection tool?

I am looking for an IE 6 / 7 plug-in or something like Firebug_Lite thing that can show the memory usage in runtime, as well as the allocation of memory of each object or variable. Anyone know what tool has this functionality? Thanks. ...

rounded corners with transparent background hover effects

Hi, On my website, each menu button has it's corners rounded using the dd_roundies library, and has mouseover, mouseout, and onclick handlers assigned via JQuery. The relevant JS code is: $(function(){ // Add an event handler to the menu items that changes the background colour on mouse-over // and reverts it on mouse-out. ...

Problem with IE7 JQuery, Ajax and CSS

In a simple web page I load some new HTML into a div using load(url) Works fine in most browsers but, surprise, surprise, IE7 behaves differently. All the other browsers apply the pages CSS styles to the newly loaded HTML but IE7 doesn't. Any ideas? Ken Update The new HTML is just a code fragment, e.g. <div class="classname"> blah ...

Does this seem like an IE8 float bug to you?

I've noticed a strange behavior in two different sites when using IE8. The first site is in the site that I maintain xebra.com. The second site is google analytics. The behavior is that when an address is typed directly into the address bar of IE8, both sites display correctly, But when one of the sites has already been loaded, an...

How can I expand the IE7 error message “This program cannot display the webpage” to Debug?

Is there a way to get Ie7 to expand on the error message “This program cannot display the webpage”? I have turned off friendly error messages but this has not helped. The background is that intermittently I get the error while using IE7 navigating to a around a particular a website. However I know the server has returned the web page ...

Why does IE make password boxes smaller than text boxes?

See the simple form below. It's just a text box on top of a password box. If you look at it in Internet Explorer 7 (and 8, and probably others) the text box is 10 pixels wider than the password box. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"&gt; <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Cont...

Internet explorer css overflow Problem

Hi all, I wanted to know if there was a way to fix scrollbar issue i'm having with ie7. Here is my CSS .gridContainer { height: 500px; width: 410px; background-color:#fff; border:1px solid #6699CC; overflow:auto; } .Grid {background-color:#fff;width:100%;} .Grid td { border-top:1px solid #C4DDFF; height:13px; min-width:30px; text-al...

Trying to upload a non-existent file in Internet Explorer, form is not submitted

I have a form with an input type=file. Internet Explorer lets the user type anything they want into that input (whereas Firefox brings up a file chooser). If the user enters a blatantly invalid name, for example: a and tries to submit the form, Internet Explorer does not even try to submit the form. Is there any way for me to know t...

iframes problem in ie

Hi, i am using iframe to refresh captcha whenever user makes an error in typing captcha text. this iframe is inside a form which looks like this... <iframe id="cvbnm" frameborder="0" width="176" height="75" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"> </iframe> and whenever user types wrong captcha i am using $("#cvbnm").attr("src", "ca...

Getting actual height of an auto-heighted element in IE

hi hi guys, I'm pretty confused! with this: ... <div id="main"> <div id="content"> <div class="col1"> ...COLUMN1 CONTENT GOES HERE... </div> <div class="col2"> ...COLUMN2 CONTENT GOES HERE... </div> </div><!-- #content --> </div><!-- #main --> ... there are columns as you see, an...

Stack overflow and out of memory issues.

When I open my Internet Explorer ver7 I get 2 messages. Stack Overflow at line:105 and out of memory at line 68. After googling, I installed regcure, scanned, and fixed all problems after several attempts. I still get the messages. What is causing this? Should regcure have fixed it? ...