internet-explorer

How can I disable the security warning when viewing XML in IE?

When I view XML files in Internet Explorer, it does syntax highlighting and provides clickable expand/collapse controls. But for every file I open, I get a yellow warning bar that takes three clicks to dismiss. These are local files, so the security warning shouldn't be necessary. Can it be disabled? ...

Prototype select all checkboxes code works in IE, but not Firefox

I'm using prototype 1.6.0.1. I'm trying to select all the checkboxes when clicking a button. This code works in IE 6, but does NOT in Firefox 3. What am I doing wrong? <input class="submit" type="button" value="check all" onclick="$(this.form).getInputs('checkbox').each(function (elem) {elem.checked = true;});" /> ...

IE6 using Multiple IEs doesn't let me edit textboxes

Not sure if this counts as programming related, it's a tool that I use. I've got Multiple IE installed so I can test the sites I make on IE6 for those people who require it, but recently IE6 is not letting me enter into any textboxes, they're acting as if they're all disabled. Has anyone else encountered this probelem and/or know of ...

How does $(document).ready() work in IE 8?

I've recently installed IE 8 and can't seem to get the jquery $(document).ready event to fire. Are there any special considerations that I'm missing? Litterally, this is all I have in my html and it works as expected in Chrome and Firefox: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1...

Internet Explorer control won't load CSS and JS

I have embedded an IE control in a Win32 app. The only purpose of this app is to ensure that a URl is always loaded and being refreshed every N minutes. My problem is that almost always the first time the URL is accessed the CSS and JS files are not loaded. This behavior repeats randomly while the application is running. My webserver i...

How to access nth element through CSS in IE6+7

I want to know how we can access nth element of an <li> using CSS in IE6/IE7. HTML: <ul class="myUL"> <li><a href="" target="">Link1</a></li> <li><a href="">Link2</a></li> <li><a href="">Link3</a></li> </ul> Now suppose I want to access Link2, how to do that? Note: Without using javascript.Only through CSS. ...

Putting 2 divs side by side / Internet Explorer 6/7 float and padding (?) bug fix

Hi everyone, I need to put 2 divs side by side. But what's more important, I want this to display correctly in IE6/7. I have managed to succeed this with Firefox though. My code: #container{ padding:10px; } #left{ float:left; width:500px; } #right{ width: 300px; float:right; padding:7px; background-color:#F...

IE gridview with flash content loading slowly

In part of our application we have the ability to search for music. The search results are loaded into a gridview which lists the song name, the artist, the royalty required for use, and a small flash object which plays a preview when clicked (wimpy button from this site) When the users search returns a large number of results, it take...

Internet Explorer does not show links styled as they are in Visual Studio designer

I use a master page and a theme. After finding that the style does not correctly work in the browser, I took the rendered html and created an html page in visual studio in order to see everything in the designer. I foun the style is showing correctly in visual studio disigner. When I tried to see the page in IE, the styl again didn't wor...

How do I check the memory used by an activeX control in IE ?

There is an aspx page which uses the OWC Spread Sheet Active X control which loads an excel sheet, but sometimes the browser becomes busy/slow. I would like to see the stats of this ActiveX control like memory used, CPU load... etc I tried using Process Explorer and NTSD but could not trace it. Can anybody give me a hand please? ...

HTML form with single text field + preventing postback in Internet Explorer

I have noticed a rather strange behaviour in IE. I have a HTML form with a single input text field and a submit button On Submit click I need to execute a client side JavaScript function that does the necessary. Now when I want to prevent the postback in the text field (on enter key press) I have added a key press JavaScript functio...

Get Specific Version of IE

Anyone know of a way to get your hands on a specific version of IE? Specifically, I am doing browser compatibility and originally developed for IE 6.0.3790.3959 (which most of our users have). Some of our employees that have IE 6.0.2900.xpsp_sp3_gdr.080814-1236 are having issues with some of our custom Javascript animation effects. I ...

What is the scope of window.name in IE?

We have a product that has both a winforms and a web client, and are providing the users a way to launch into another company asset (a web application). We need to make sure that the user only ever has one instance of the other web application open in a browser (or at least that we've opened for them). We accomplished this (sort of) by d...

Internet Explorer's Operation Aborted and Latency Issue

If you don't know what the operation aborted error is, here's a Microsoft KB Article about it, http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/927917 . There's also tonnes of posts about it but the simple answer for it's occurrence is this; the error only occurs if you try to manipulate a DOM element via JavaScript before the element you ar...

How to preserve aspect ratio when scaling image using one (CSS) dimension in IE6?

Here's the problem. I have an image: <img alt="alttext" src="filename.jpg"/> Note no height or width specified. On certain pages I want to only show a thumbnail. I can't alter the html, so I use the following CSS: .blog_list div.postbody img { width:75px; } Which (in most browsers) makes a page of uniformly wide thumbnails, all wi...

jQuery .clone() and Microsoft Explorer (bug?)

I am having some issues with Microsoft Explorer 6/7 and the jQuery "clone" function. The jQuery that I am using is: $(function() { $('#addFields').click(function() { var newCredit = $('#original').clone(); // create new set newCredit.find('input').val(''); // empty input fields $(this).before(newCredit); // a...

jQuery Autocomplete IE bug (list.scrollTop)

I'm using the jQuery Autocomplete plugin. The strange problem I'm getting is with the lines that use in the plugin: list.scrollTop(...) Internet Explorer 8 (in all modes) claims it doesn't know this method. I've done a fix but I'm curious how this could slip past the developer. Is this new to IE8/IE7? ...

How do I stop IE6 clipping an element positioned outside its parent via negative margins?

I have an element positioned outisde its parent via negative margins, like this: <style> .parent { height: 1%; } .element { float: left; margin-left: -4px; } </style> ... <div class="parent"> <div class="element">Element</div> </div> In Internet Explorer 6, the part of .element positioned outside of its parent eleme...

Finding more information about browser versions with C#/ASP.Net.

First, some background to my problem. There are many versions of Internet Explorer 6 and 7 that do not support more than 20 Key-Value pairs in a cookie. I have a list of full versions that do and do not support this. This is fixed in a windows update, but it's not possible for me to force the users of my app to carry out windows update...

Javascript AJAX function not working in IE?

I have this code: function render_message(id) { var xmlHttp; xmlHttp=new XMLHttpRequest(); xmlHttp.onreadystatechange=function() { if(xmlHttp.readyState==4) { document.getElementById('message').innerHTML=xmlHttp.responseText; document.getElementById('message').style.display=''; } } var url="inc...