internet-explorer

Always need to empty browser history

I have a C#/.NET website on my local machine that I use to test. Everytime I run the website in Internet Explorer 7, I have to empty the browser history or it will stay logged on as the previous person. How do I make it so it lets me log in without having to empty the history every single time I want to test? ...

Apache 2, Joomla 1.0.x configuration causes malformed response in IE 6+?

Hi all, A friend of mine has inherited an old Joomla 1.0.x site, that amongst other things has a big problem with IE visitors. The site is viewable here: http://intellepark.co.za If you browse the site with Firefox, the GETs / responses bounce around as follows: 1. GET / 2. 302 to /site 3. GET /site 4. 301 to /...

How to start IE with a URL in a CYGWIN session.

I have a windows xp machine set up with Cygwin running the ssh service, on that machine I have a bat script that opens up IE using the following command "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" "http://windowsxpbox:3000/flex/flexUnitTests?debug=true#automated=true". The script runs fine when I'm calling it locally on that xp ma...

What to do if the head tag to make IE8 Emulate IE7 does not work?

Following the advice of the following post, I added the following code to one of my client's websites in .NET. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" /> For some reason the website is still not displaying the menus correctly. If I g...

Issue with IE security on page opened from javascript

I have a Java web application running in JBOSS with Tomcat with two web applications (contexts) running on it. A button press on one of the applications opens runs a javascript command to open a new window with a page from the other. The problem I seem to be having is that this raises a security alert in IE. with the following message:...

Deployment of a Browser Helper Object

hi all, I wrote an IE Plugin with the .NET SpicIE Framework. During development I tested it with the following commands: "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\regasm" "plugin.dll" "C:\Programme\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\gacutil" /if "plugin.dll" Now I want to create an MSI Installer with the Microsoft WiX Toolkit. But...

How to "refresh" a window in IE without the window stealing focus?

I have a page on which, periodically, I must change the URL to incorporate some GET parameters in the background using JavaScript, such that the page refreshes using the new GET parameters. So, for example, I'll periodically do window.location.href = window.location.host + '?' + ss; or window.location.search = '?' + ss; Where 'ss'...

Detecting Presence of Horizontal Scrollbar in all browsers

Is this possible to do with JavaScript or even Selenium? ...

Popup window not opening on IE7

Hi Javascript gurus, I have this Javascript code which is working fine on Firefox , but it is not working on IE 7. Any ideas why? Here is the code function TestWindow() { SimpleWindow('Default.aspx', 'Simple Test', 200, 200, 'yes') } function SimpleWindow(mypage,myname,w,h,scroll) { var win= null; var winl = (screen.wi...

JavaScript regex exec takes too long to execute

Hi, I've got a simple JavaScript regex check (written by other developer) that works perfectly on thousands of different strings. However I've just discovered one particular string value that's causing that regex to take as long as 10min to execute in Firefox/IE which is unacceptable. I've extracted an actual regex call into small code ...

Using Parallels to test Web applications in IE

I am developing a Web application in Pylons on the Mac. My development server serves pages to http://127.0.0.1:5000/. Is there any way that I can access this page from Parallels for testing with IE without having to set up a development environment in Windows? ...

.net Response.redirect in IE between domains returns "Cannot display page"

On my domain I have a form workflow where users enter data on one form, click continue and enter data on the next form. I am using server.transfer for moving between forms on my domain. Once users have completed the last form on my domain I use a response.redirect to a third party domain so that the users can complete payment. All pages...

how to set anchor tag text width using css?

Hi I have html and css as below - .title { display: block; background-color: red; } <a href="#"> <span class="title">Text</span> </a> I could see that the SPAN spans to the 100% of the available width (coz of dispaly: block). Like below |----------------------------------------------------| | Text ...

Problem setting equal heights with jQuery in IE

I have several of the same class of element on a page and am attempting to get them all to be the same height even though the content within varies slightly. I've put together a small function that yields results in both Firefox 2+ and Safari 3+ but apparently doesn't even register in IE 7. Here's what I'm using: var tallestcopy = 0; ...

Why doesn't function.apply() work across document boundaries in IE?

I'm seeing some strange behavior in IE trying to call functions in another page via function.apply(). Here's a simple test case: test1.html: <HTML> <HEAD> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> var opened = null; function applyNone() { opened.testFunc.apply(opened); } function applyArgs() { opened.test...

Absolute positioning in IE7 limiting width of div.

I'm working on drop down menus for this: http://www.heroicdreams.com/wordpress/elderFlashSite.html In every other browser it works great, but in IE7 the drop down widths are being limited by the size of the top link and it's margin. Is there a way to get IE to behave like all other browsers in that it will allow the drop down widths to ...

Remaning checkbox name from JS cause IE to run slow, not FF?

I have a list of check boxes. For the check boxes that are selected, I change it's name before submitting. In FF the function works. In IE I get: A script on this page is causing Internet Explorer to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to abort the script? YES/NO Not sur...

Why is Internet Explorer 8 messing up my website look and feel?

My website look and feel is not 100% the same in Internet Explorer 8 as it use to be with Internet Explorer 7. My site is created with VS 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0. How can I fix this? Is there a way to fix this? Edit: For those who want to see my website, it is Located Here - Some borders are diff. and the Email/Username text box in th...

Getting HTTP request from IE

Is there a way to access the http request IE made when the page is already loaded. For instance, I have an application that is opening a browser window. I want to scrape the page, but would like to get the entire http request for that page (not just the URL). I have downloaded the developer tools, but don't see anything in there for the...

Getting a Flash Movie with Javascript in IE

I have a flash movie that I need to get with javascript. Here is how I embed it using swf object: <div id="ap1_mod"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> var flashvars = { mp3Path: "stop", artistName : "", trackName : "" }; var params = { codebase: 'http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/fla...