internet-explorer

Change radio button name javascript not working in IE

I have a few radiobuttons in a jsp page. I run a javascript method once the page is loaded that seeks for certain radio buttons and change its name so they work like a radio group. I'm doing it this way because the radio buttons are inside jsf table and I have no access to the name property when coding and I want all of the radio butto...

File download servlet behaving differently with IE on clustered server

I have a servlet that sends a file by setting the HTTP Content-Type to "application/zip", the Content-Disposition to "attachment" and writing it on the response's OutputStream; it behaves correctly when deployed on my local application server, making the browser show the popup to choose wheter or not to download the file. However, when ...

Iframes, pdfs and focus with internet explorer

So - I have a page which contains a textarea and a dynamically created IFrame which displays a PDF using the adobe acrobat plugin. Initially the textarea is focused. I want the textarea to be focused, but the IFrame steals focus when the pdf is loaded. In firefox it is trivial to reset the textarea as the focused element. I do this...

Javascript key press buffer issue.

I have a function which starts to gobble up keys after a hot key is pressed and fires off an AJAX process at the end of a sequence (barcode scan). The issue is what happens if the user accidentally presses the hot key? My paper napkin solution was: on hotkey: if(okay(true)) {buffer=""; ts=now(); consumekey();} on EOTkey: if(okay(false...

Adding an item to Internet Explorer's right-click context menu

I'm trying to add a new entry into Internet Explorer's right-click context menu. I understand that this can be achieved by creating an HTML file containing JavaScript, and then linking to this from a location in the registry. I have also read that you can also add the HTML to a resource file and compile it into a DLL (see the Microsoft...

Is there a XDomainRequest equivalent in Firefox?

Is there an equivalent to Internet Explorer's XDomainRequest in Firefox or any of the other browsers? I'd like to access a service/website outside of my domain. ...

internet explorer -> Tools -> proxy settings: How to add menu item, create window when clicked, n perform opreations on registry

Hi I want to add menu item to Internet Explorer-> tools. For example: Exactly like Intrnet explorer-> Tools -> Delete browsing history I want to add proxy related actions For example: tools -> Enable proxy tools -> Disable proxy Also to have proxy cache, i would like to display window exactly like what is displayed when we click o...

JS Error in Internet Explorer

Hi, I'm getting "Object Expected JS error in IE 6 and 7. I'm not able to reproduce this always. The behavior is inconsistent. I'm using Dojo Charts in my JSP page. When this error occurs none of the Charts gets loaded. I had a similar problem with IE before. That was a JS function was called before the JS file was loaded completely. We...

IE 7 embedded in winform app is freezing the entire winform app

Hi guys, We stumbled on the usual friday afternoon bug... We have a .net 2.0 winform app that uses the WebBrowser control (deployed on xp tablet edition, with latest IE 7). At some point in a page, we are hidding a div and setting a textbox value using some javascript. At that point, the operation is working (text appears in the tex...

Examine http response headers in IE8

I'm looking for an ie8-addon that displays the http headers like firebug or httpliveheaders do. Any advice is appreciated. edit: I may be blind but it seems as if the built-in developer tools (F12) do not show the http headers. ...

How do i make my page compatible with IE?

Am building a website using Django, my templates make use of CSS and am testing it locally using firefox, but when i was just about to "show it of" to my buddies i run it against IE and the darn web site is all broken! the headers are all messed up nothing seems to hold together, the spaces are all messed up! its bad. Is there something...

IE7 - proxy - Content-Length populated but no sign of any content !

hello, i am writing a web proxy in C#, and i have noticed a difference between firefox and IE. when my proxy catches requests from IE, i analyse the request - sometimes its a GET and sometimes its a POST. when it is a POST, i analyse the Content-Length field, and make sure this matches the actual content (the body), which is placed aft...

Internet Explorer ignores cookies on some domains (cannot read or set cookies)

I have a site, e.g. example.com, where users can set their own subdomains (one user - one subdomain) and upload their own scripts, e.g. http://somedomain.example.com/xyzzy.php would map to /www/somedomain/xyzzy.php Now, on some of those domains, Internet Explorer 7 won't/can't accept cookies. Checked with Fiddler: the server sends Set-C...

Why is it bad to make elements global variables in Javascript?

I've heard that it's no good idea to make elements global in JS. I didn't understand why. Is it something IE can't handle? For example: div = getElementById('topbar'); ...

CSS 100% height + header with static height;

I am building a layout which includes a header, which is 40 px in height. Underneath this header a SWF resides that should take up the rest of the available space. The best solution untill now has been working with a table, giving the first row 40px height and the second row a 100% height - but these rows still add up in Internet Explor...

What is the default size for an HTML form field (type=text)?

I have a page that visually has two fields right on top of each other, but are actually in two different forms. In Firefox, they appear to have the same width. In IE (IE6, IE7, IE8) they appear with different widths. Here's a sample, I think the problem is the lack of "size=" <input id="fieldid" type="text" name="fieldname" value="" ...

IE not clearing subsequent floats

I'm trying to get two divs to float to opposite sides of the page, with text flowing between them. The top of the second (left-aligned) div should be even with the bottom of the first (right-aligned) div. The code below works fine in FF, Chrome, Opera, etc. fine, but they do not clear properly in IE. Both divs appear at the top of the...

How can i remove this console from my page?

Am testing my webpage on firefox and everything is looking fine, but when i run my page on IE or chrome a section with Clear ReCSS console DOM Object Close What is it and how can i remove it? ...

how do i cache FileContentResult for performance?

Presently i have the following action to return files (images, PDF's, etc) from my DB: // // GET: /FileManager/GetFile/ID [OutputCache(Duration = 600, VaryByParam = "ID")] public ActionResult GetFile(int ID) { FileService svc = new FileService(new SqlFileRepository(base.ConnectionString)); KsisOnline...

IE z-index relative/absolute bug in list

I have the following navigation where .topNav has position:relative and subnav has position:absolute. I cant get the sublist to appear over the main list due to z-index problems. This seems to be a known problem. <ul> <li class="topNav">About Us <ul class="subNav"><li> Subsection A</li><li>Subsection B</li></ul> </li> </ul> Does anyon...