internet-explorer

Close application from captive IE session.

Folks, My question is: Can this be done better? and if so, How? Any ideas? We need to start a captive IE session from within an "invisible" C# .NET 3.5 application, and quit both the IE session and the "parent" application after processing a certain request. I've been mucking around with this problem for the last week or so... and thi...

Microsoft Script Editor (MSE) download

A while back i saw a link on here which let you download an installer for MSE. I should have copied it down but i didnt. Now i really need it. I know that it comes with office 2002, but i cant install that right now. If someone has a link please share it. I think its easy to find if you know the file name, which i dont. ...

Javascript IE Event

This works in Firefox, but not IE. Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks! var form = document.getElementById('theform') /* create the event handler */ form.gen.onclick = function( evt ) { var f = evt.target.form var y = f.year.value var m = f.month.value genCalendar( document, y, m, 'theCal...

My site crashes IE 7, where should I start to understand such a thing?

I could use a bit of insight! I built a webpage in which I use a fair amount of jquery/flash and other somewhat hardcore layout tools. It was fine in local testing, works in IE 6 and 7 so I delivered it to the customer, who put it on a server and now it promptly crashes IE 7. (haven't tried IE 6 yet). I don't have any decent debugging t...

Who wins if we have multiple temporary Asynchronous pluggable protocol for same schema?

Suppose we have more than one temp Async pluggable protocols for schema lets say ftp: then which one will be called by urlmon? ...

Monitor data flowing between BHO and IE

Is there a way to monitor data flowing between BHO and IE? I am writing one BHO and its giving some issues . I have tried tools like fiddler which can monitor traffic between server and IE but can I monitor traffic flowing between BHO and IE. I am mostly interested in some tool. ...

Obtaining in IE the length of a Java array passed from an applet to its Javascript wrapper

I have the following method in my applet: public File[] getFiles() Which I call from Javascript as follows: var files = applet.getFiles(); for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) { // Do something. } This works in Firefox but IE gives me 'length' is null or not an object Any ideas anyone? ...

IE 7, Javascript transparent div onclick

Well i have a transparent div or the background is set to transparent :) css: #lowerLayer { position: fixed; top: 0px; left: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; background-color: Transparent; cursor: help; z-index: 1; } The div is placed right under the tag.. and under ther...

What causes Internet Explorers icon to flicker?

When I browse to my website, when the JavaScript loads, it takes a while. During that time, the Internet Explorer icon goes wild. It keeps flickering between the blue (loading icon) and the cursor. What am I doing wrong? This happens a lot. Especially when I try to type text within a textarea. ...

Design a login form so IE will remember login data

My company website, which I develop, requires a login using a form. Firefox correctly asks for and remembers login details, but test instances of IE6, IE7 do not remember either the username or password, and IE8 will give a dropdown of usernames previously used, but will not remember the password. What is it about the design of my pas...

Debugging Web Apps in Visual Studio 2005 with Internet Explorer 8

First of all, everything was working fine for several months: When I tried to debug a web app with Visual Studio 2005 and Internet Explorer 7, I just click "Start Debugging", a IE window opened and the process was attached to the debugger. But after I installed IE 8, the process was not attached automatically. I had to attach manually...

vertical scroll bar not working when using window xp theme (not classic)

This may sound crazy, and i didnt believe it until i saw it for myself. The vertical scroll bar does not scroll when you click in the space between the scroller or the arrows. You have to drag the bar to get it to scroll. This only happens in the ugly default theme (not windows classic). The scroll bar has some heavy javascript behin...

How to enforce internet explorer to use encoding given in meta tag?

I'm trying to prepare a demo html page with mixed english and arabic content. Basically it contains a small table with english phrases on the left, and the arabic translation on the right side. Because I don't understand arabic, I took the first three characters of the arabic alphabet from the Unicode reference. First attempt, using th...

How can I get response information from IE programatically?

I want to know what are different ways to get the response code information when we visit any page in IE by using Windows API or some interfaces using C++? I think some ways include 1)Using BHO: But I think that will give HTML information.Can we get information related to HTTP here like response codes? 2)Using Async Pluggable Prot...

jQuery & PHP and MYSQL IE Problem

Now All of this code works fine in Firfox but in IE the divs dont change when the php infomation changes. Can some one help me please as i am working on a project and this is holding me back Thank you. Here is the jQuery Code: $.ajaxSetup({ cache: false }); $(document).ready(function(){ $("#not").css('display','none'); $("#fonline")....

Programmatically add trusted sites to Internet Explorer

I'm doing an IE automation project using WatiN. When a file to be downloaded is clicked, I get the following in the Internet Explorer Information bar: To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has blocked this site from downloading files to you computer. In order to download the report, I can manually add the site to...

Internet Explorer back button broken when obscenely long drop down lists are loaded

I was working on some ASP.NET 2.0 pages when I noticed that some of the pages' back buttons were unavailable - greyed out. And clicking the drop down menu next to them showed clear results, as if I had come to this page fresh. I looked through the code trying to find something to specifically disable the back buttons (redirects, clever...

CSS Position Different in FF and IE

I am trying to position some elements on a page at absolute positions. I used the following test code (I replaced the <> with [] to get through the HTML cleaner): <body> <div style="position=absolute; top=100px; left=100px"> HELLO 100,100</div> <div style="position=absolute; top=200px; left=100px"> HELLO 200,100</div> <div style="...

swf https problem with IE

Hi there! I'm using a flash mp3 player (www.premiumbeat.com) within my website (localhost:8084 - tomcat). This is my situation: In my site I have secure files (any file under /mywebapp/secure) and public files (everything outside /mywebapp/secure). Secure files are served through https (port 8443) the mp3 player is located at: /mywebap...

jquery problem with IE....works fine in firefox n chrome

I have a code which accept a query and uses yahoo websearch to return a suggestion.Its working fine in FF and Chrome . but in IE it gives no result. can any one help me on this?? Here is the code: $(document).ready(function() { $.ajax({ type: 'GET', url: "dummyapi.php", data: {query: "yaho"}, success: function(xml) { alert...