internet-explorer

IE 8 dropping memory pages?

This question is a spin-off/evolution of this question. (That question got marked as resolved because I put a bounty on it and it auto-resolved, but it never really got answered.) The summary is this: we have an ASP.NET site. Sometimes we get errors when the client asks for bizarre urls. From the resources the client is asking for,...

Internet Explorer Drop down border

Is there a way to hide the border of a drop down menu in IE (to make it look flat, blend into the backgroud)? In Firefox it's simple enough to just set the border to 0px, but IE still renders a border even if you set the border to 0px. Thanks, Eric ...

Print Web page with background colors

I have a javascript backed 'print' button on my webpage where the user can print the webpage. This works ok except the background color of various elements does not print. Is there a method of printing a web page whereby the background color of the various elements will print? ...

Browser support

I need to make this function work everywhere, except IE6-7 $(function(){ window.scrollTo(0,300); }) Please help. ...

javascript void(0) problem in IE

HI, I am developing a web page using asp.net. I am using some links in my web page. For that I have used some code like this. <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript:ChangeLoc('TEST','');">Test</a> and in the ChangeLoc() method I have written __doPostBack event. This works fine in IE7 installed in my machine. But in IE6...

Install search provider [Internet Explorer]

This seems like a basic task, but I'm unable to find a solution for some reason. How can I programmatically install a search provider in Internet Explorer? I'm using NSIS for my installer. ...

Simple jQuery Hide/Show does not work in IE

$(document).ready(function(){ $('#createGallery').hide(); $("#newGallery").click(function () { $("#createGallery").show('slow'); }); $("#gallerySelect > option").not("#newGallery").click(function () { $("#createGallery").hide('slow'); }); }); I can't figure out why. Seems easy enough. my HTML is in HAML. But its easy to unde...

Floating an image right and left in text box weird spacing in IE

My example is here The logos look fine when told to align right or left in FF and they seem to wrap properly with the text, but in IE a huge gap shows up after the first line of text. I have also created float right and left styles and tried to apply to the logos but got the same effect. I know this is an issue in IE, but I haven't fou...

How do I get my ATL COM DLL IE plugin to work in Mozilla?

I have COM DLL(ATL Project) which handles the download dialog in IExplorer. I want that same DLL to work in Mozilla. What do I have to do for this? Is it possible? ...

Pushing out a PDF file to IE from an ASP.NET 3.5 site

My application pushes out a PDF file to a popup (e.g. no menu/toolbar) browser window (in response to the user clicking a button). This works for every browser out there except for IE7. In IE7, all I get is a blank window. Here is the server-side code that pushes out the PDF: private void StreamPDFReport(string ReportPath, HttpCont...

Sys.InvalidOperationException: Component not found + IE7

Hey Everyone, Im getting this error sporadically. Im running VS 2008, Win2003 Server and it only happens in IE 6, 7. Sys.InvalidOperationException: Component not found 'ctl100tabsPlan' It doesnt happen all the time..just when the page takes a bit longer to load it seems. Anyone find a fix for this? ...

ASP.Net bug "Unable to start program http://localhost:123/myapp/"

Well since i installed IE 8 i get this error so i cant debug my asp.net page :( "Unable to start program http://localhost:123/myapp/" Could not find the element(or some thing like that translated from swe) What must i do to get rid of this error? and IE more or less hangs after this, the window does respond but it only loads half of it...

keybd_event() not working in ACTIVEX module with IE PROTECTED MODE

keybd_event() is not working in ACTIVEX module with PROTECTED MODE - I am using activex that simulates keypress but it simply does nothing with new IE8. keybd_event(VK_SPACE, MapVirtualKey(VK_SPACE, 0), 0, 0); keybd_event(VK_SPACE, MapVirtualKey(VK_SPACE, 0), KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0); is there a trick to get around this issue? ...

css style overwrite order?

Well i have 2 css includes <link href="Styles/layout.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <link href="Styles/ATJournal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> layout.css Table.infoBox tr td table tr td { padding: 0px; border: 0px; } ATJournal.css table.ATJMainTable tr td { border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px...

URL loads correctly when accessed directly, but not within an iframe in IE8 and Safari

I am attempting to mimic a pretty simple feature of Facebook. When you click on a link someone has shared, you're taken to a page that has a Facebook toolbar at the top and the actual page loaded below it within an iframe. The url I'm using has parameters that are being passed, so it ends up being: <iframe src="https://example.com/login...

Caching from URLs with a query string

The web application I'm working on serves up images with URLs like /image?name=a.gif. Pages are loading slowly partly because browsers are not caching the images. Is there any combination of http headers that will persuade IE to cache the images even though the URL has a query string in it? I'm trying to avoid the browser making any unn...

Detecting which version of IE is installed on your OS in C#?

I am currenting manintaining a windows service that programmatcially generates a HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse objects for retrieving the response message of the request. The UserAgent property of the HttpWebRequest was hard coded to use IE 6 as the browser agent. Is the a way to programmatcially detect which version of IE is inst...

Internet Explorer 6 and 7: floated elements expand to 100% width when they contain a child element floated right. Is there a workaround?

I've got a parent div floated left, with two child divs that I need to float right. The parent div should (if I understand the spec correctly) be as wide as needed to contain the child divs, and this is how it behaves in Firefox et al. In IE, the parent div expands to 100% width. This seems to be an issue with floated elements that hav...

Internet explorer equivalent for loading a text file in javascript

I wish to load some additional data from javascript in an HTML page. The solution below is small and does exactly what I need to do in non-Microsoft browsers. Question is, what is the Microsoft explorer equivalent? Note that the data I'm loading isn't in XML. I also do not wish to add a javascript library - I want this page to load fas...

IE history

Hi there I generate some png charts and excel files using a mysql database. I display the charts as images in my webapplication, but from time to time IE users don;t have acces to the last version of the files because IE keeps showing to them the previous loaded datas(charts and excel files) How to prevent happening that? On the clien...