internet-explorer

Why does my site crash in IE7 when fading to a page that has another fade on it?

Please look at http://www.idea-palette.com I have multiple pages that are being faded in using the top nav. When the user clicks on any of the above buttons to fade in another page that contains the Slideshow using the jQuery Cycle Plugin, IE7 crashes. When I comment out the jQuery that controls the fades of the slideshow, IE7 does not...

Java Applet Closes IE for Users not Admins - where is JAVAPOLICY.EXE file ?

I have issue with Win2003 that Java Applet Closes IE for Users not Admins. I found out the following solution but it refers to missing JAVAPOLICY.EXE file: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Java/J2SE/Q_22694925.html where is this javapolicy.exe file, its not included with newest JRE6 ? ...

JQuery not working in IE

I am trying to create a dynamic menu by reading an xml file using jQuery. I have developed the code and its been working fine in FF3 and Chrome, however it just doesn't work for IE7/8. Im posting my code below, can some one please have a look and help me with this ? var menu =""; $(document).ready(function() { $.ajax({ ...

Control-F5 Browser Refresh (Flash object not refreshing)

Under the hood, I was wondering what Control-F5 for a browser does. To me, it clears the cache and refreshes images/text/controls/etc. I get that. Question: What about Flash objects? I've been trying to refresh a page with a Flash control and it doesn't seem to refresh to the latest. It would only refresh after I manually clear the ca...

How do you set the heights of cells in a table that expands to fill the window in IE?

I am trying to construct a simple, one-column layout. I want the top two rows to have smaller, fixed heights. The third row should expand to fill the rest of the page. Here is my current source: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt; <html> <head> <style type="te...

Prevent existing CSS from styling injected HTML/CSS

I'm working on a project which injects JS+CSS+HTML over web pages which I do not have control over. I am concerned about the host page styling my injected code -- I want my injected code to only obey my styling, and not theirs. At the moment the only method to do this I can think of involves explicitly specifying every possible tag for...

IE 8 security warning - choosing not to display unsecure items - JS still run?

Hello, I've got google conversion tracking code (small bit of javascript) on a confirmation page on my site which is displayed after user completes a transaction. It is displayed on my wordpay callback page which is pulling data from the regular site (http) to the worldpay site (https) so IE 7/8 asks "do you want to display non-secure...

Internet Explorer 8 builds 18702 and 8702IC??

I'm having an issue with a strange version of IE8 which I have not come across until now. The version causing all the trouble with me is 8.0.6001.8702IC? Has anyone come across this version yet? This funky version is breaking a lot of the websites I worked on, mostly asp.net 1.1 and 2.0 web sites. However, the [supposedly] final build...

Anyone have ideas for solving the "n items remaining" problem on Internet Explorer?

In my ASP.Net app, which is javascript and jQuery heavy, but also uses master pages and .Net Ajax pieces, I am consistently seeing on the status bar of IE 6 (and occasionally IE 7) the message "2 items remaining" or "15 items remaining" followed by "loading somegraphicsfile.png|gif ." This message never goes away and may or may not preve...

IE7 display oddity (example attached)

I'm working on a Javascript-based replacement for a Flash applet. The site is having rendering problems only in IE, where it exhibits a behavior that has me at wit's end. http://janetalasher.com/new/content/portfolio/artcloth/ (This is the page) What does IE do that's so strange (in this case only)? If you look in Firefox, you'll see a...

IE 6/7 Access Denied trying to access a popup window.document

I'm creating a popup window with no URL source using window.open(). I don't give it a URL because soon I'll want to post a form to it. However, in the meantime I'd like to display a short "Now loading..." message so the user isn't looking at a blank page for the 2-3 seconds it'll take the form post to go through. I tried adding Javasc...

ActiveX Control will not load

I have an application that is trying to load an ActiveX control residing in a signed cab file on the server. When I try to run the function that loads it, I'm stopped by the IE information bar with the following message: In IE 6 & 7 - "Your security settings do not allow websites to use ActiveX controls installed on your computer" In I...

Disable Printing in Internet Explorer

Is there a way to disable printing in Internet Explorer without writing a shell around the browser API? A GPO would be the best method, but I'm certainly open for anything. ...

Self-closing popups in IE -- how to get proper onBlur behavior?

I want a transient window to close itself when the user clicks away from it. This works for Firefox: var w = window.open(...); dojo.connect(w, "onblur", w, "close"); but it doesn't seem to work in Internet Explorer. Some other sites made reference to an IE-specific "onfocusout" event, but I couldn't find a coherent working example of ...

Asp.Net Sending PDF to browser

I've been trying to get this aspx page to serve up a pdf. It works correctly in Firefox, but IE gives Internet Explorer cannot download getform.aspx from SERVER_NAME Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. This is the general functionality of my co...

How to detect right mouse click while left mouse button is pressed in IE?

I have the following: <html> <body oncontextmenu="return false;"> <script src="jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script> <script> $(document).ready(function() { $(document).mousedown(function(e) { if (e.button == 2) //right click { document.body.style.backgroundColor = "green"; } else //left clic...

Temporary Internet File (read from SharePoint via IE). How do I find the URL?

When an IE user clicks the link of a file residing in SharePoint (and user selects "read-only" access), the file is copied to Temporary Internet Files, my application is opened and passed that filename as a parameter. I'm trying to implement a "check out" button in my app so that a user can switch from read-only mode to check-out and ed...

What's the difference of Click-to-focus and focus-by-javascript?

I met one troublesome web page whose structure is complicated. If one DIV is clicked by mouse, everything is OK. However, if it is focus-ed by javascript(i.e. divElement.focus). The layout turns to messy. This only happens in IE7/8. So, is there any difference between click-to-focus and focus-by-javascript in IE? ...

Why DIV shifts when focus() is invoked in onBeforeDeactivate event handler?

I met a wired problem for a web page in IE7/8. The page configured to be dir="rtl". And divRow is made very large width so as its containing div doesn't wrap. Click the editor area, type some words, then click the "Hello world" text. The layout will turns to be messy, because the offset and width of div with divRow class changed. I su...

Google geomap with jquery fails in IE

Hi all. I faced with problem that geomap by google fails with JQuery together in Internet explorer. Otherwise in Firefox it looks like this: Here comes js references <script type="text/javascript" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&amp;amp;v=2&amp;amp;key=ABCDEFG"&gt; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ww...