internet-explorer

Saving a web page from IE using Powershell

I use the automation interface of Internet Explorer from Powershell to open a web page in a supported format. I want to save this page back to disk in one of the formats supported by IE. Opening the page is easy: $ie = New-Object -ComObject "InternetExplorer.Application" $ie.Navigate("C:\MyFile.mht") How do I save it back in another f...

Web slices not loading in IE8

I'm trying to add a webslice to a site i admin, but for some reason i cant get any webslices at all to work in ie8. I have tried 2 different machine at home and one at work but i hit the same problem, i just get an 'ie cannot display this page' error. If i hit the diagnose problem button i get a script debug error: Line: 264 Error: Obj...

How do you copy an inline style element in IE?

IE does not allow writing to the innerHTML property of style or head elements. So how do you copy a style element from the head of one document to another? ...

Why does IE open form submission in a new window and not dynamically inserted iframe.

I am trying to get post a form to a hidden, dynamically inserted iframe, but in Internet Explorer the form submission opens in a new window. var iframe = document.createElement('iframe'); iframe.name = 'hidden_iframe'; iframe.className = 'NotVisible'; iframe.id = 'hidden_iframe'; document.body.appendChild(iframe); var my_form = documen...

CSS - Do non-IE browsers support the "filter" attribute?

IE5.5+ has supported the CSS attribute "filter" where you convert a color image into grayscale using just CSS. filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(grayscale=1); Do other browsers support a similar CSS tag without using JavaScript? ...

Recursive image lazy-load failing in Internet Explorer (6-8)

Problem: I am having trouble implementing a recursive image lazy load in all relevant versions of Internet Explorer. I am using jQuery 1.3.2, and the code that follows works wonderfully on Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. While I would expect that IE6's javascript engine would choke, I am very surprised to find that it does not work at all...

ExecWB Print Preview Sometimes shows blank pages.

Hello.. This is a weird one. I am using the ExecWB method to create a PrintPreview window. Most of the time the print preview appears correctly. But sometimes it shows a blank page and that is all. Has anyone seen this before? The problem appears to be isolated to IE6. The problem is very hit and miss so it is difficult to determine wha...

css unordered list menu resembles 'steps' in IE

Hi, my menu is working fine on the good browsers. The code is all valid (so far!). In IE though it looks like a staircase, each menu item is a few pixels down from it left neighbour. It should all be horizontal. Please have a look here ...

How to select drop down list value and then postback with PowerShell and IE 6.0

This will set the value, but will not cause a postback: function SelectValue($ddl, $val) { $ddl.options | % {$i = 0}{ if ($_.value -eq $val) { $ddl.selectedIndex = $i; }; $i += 1; } } Also, once I get the postback working, will I need to add a delay, eg: while($ie.ReadyState -ne 4) { start-sleep -m 100 ...

Problem with IE when using display:block for links

This is my HTML: <div id="links"> <a href="">Link 1</a> <a href="">Link 2</a> <a href="">Link 3</a> <a href="">Link 4</a> </div> And these are the CSS styles: #links { position: absolute; border: 1px solid #000; } #links a { display: block; } #links a:hover { background-color: #CCC; } This displays a list ...

IE bandobject appearing in desktop taskbar

Hi, i have created an IE bandobject (toolbar) that sits in IE and works well, however it also appears in the XP taskbar menu under toolbars. does anyone know how to prevent this behaivour? Thanks! ...

window.onload() is not firing with IE 8 in first shot

Hi all, I am trying to make my pages work correctly with IE 8, I found out from here: http://www.masykur.web.id/post/How-to-Make-Our-Website-to-be-Ready-for-IE8.aspx that, my page has to be XHTML 1.0 compliant and atleast CSS 2.1 compliant, I made my page and CSS compliant with only few warnings, but still window.onload() is not firing....

Border around 100% body height and width (HTML 4.01 Strict)

Okay, this is driving me crazy right now. I want to have a border around my document. It should be nicely going around the whole window/viewport. So I define: body { border: 1px solid red; } When my document is in quirks mode, this works fine. At least in IE, which is my primary target here. A red border shows up at the very edges ...

getting attribute using jQuery in IE

I have simple button: <button type="button" id="somebutton" value="start">blah</button> in jQuery, on the bind('click, function(){.... I have this: $(this).attr("value") of course what this does is gets the value of an attribute, which in this particular case is: "start". OK, this works in firefox, I get correct value of "start". ...

Hidden radio button but box around it in ie8

Hello, I have style my radio buttons with a background image, basically what i have done is <input type="radio" id="btn" name="btn" style="opacity: 0;filter: alpha(opacity = 0);position:absolute;"> <label for="btn">My Text</label> <!--- added styles to it ---> with this i get output something like this Image1 that shows how the disp...

Do browsers compile and cache javascript?

I’ve noticed that after making a change to a javascript file, clearing the cache, and reloading; one function in particular runs in about 90ms, the next time I load the page, it runs in 40ms, the next time I run it, it runs in 20ms … then never gets faster. It kind of looks like IE is compiling my javascript and caching that compiled ve...

Can you change z-index with JS in IE8

Very simple example: http://jsbin.com/ohude Click button1, the 'hello2' text p should change z-index to 89. Click button2, the z-index should change yet again. This is obvious in firebug. But it doesn't do jack in IE8. Can someone confirm? Thanks. ...

Finding Process ID of my IE session for debugging in VS 2008?

Hi Just switched over from eclipse to vs 2008 for debugging javascript, i feel more at home as i use vs 2008 for c# and when i come to "attach to process" i see 3 iexplorer processes and 2 of them with "script", I only have 1 IE window open.. How can i identify which process ID i need to use? Anyone know? Thanks ...

Oracle Forms/Applications in Internet Explorer 8 using JInitator

Has anyone been able to get Oracle Forms running JInitator to loan in Internet Explorer 8 yet? I have tried removing all add-ons, various version of Java, add the domain to the trusted sites using wildcards, and using compatibility mode to no avail. I am looking to get our Oracle guys to kick there Internet Explorer 6 habit. This is r...

Animated gifs causing input flicker in IE

The Cursor in an input flickers with IE7 when the page has an animated gif on it. Take away the gif, and the problem goes away. Edit (again): What I really need is somebody who knows the answer to a bizarre ie bug. I'm a 10 year experienced web app developer. Trust me, I know how to debug -- for instance, knowing for a fact that the ...