internet-explorer

IE CSS Position Wrong, any ideas why?

I cannot figure out why in the following code (a larger page with all unnecessary portions deleted) the Textarea is way too far to the right in IE 6 or 7. It should be right next to the text as it is in Firefox. Any ideas? <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"&gt; <html><head> <me...

Internet Explorer z-index bug?

How do you overlap an element over another element that is positioned relatively in Internet Explorer? Z-index doesn't work, it always appears behind the relatively positioned element. ...

Using an ActiveX control from another ActiveX control on a web page

I'm having trouble calling a non IDispatch method in an ActiveX control that I've written. I have a web page with two separate Active X object both of which I've written. I start by calling a method on the first object which returns an interface pointer to a new COM object that is not co-creatable. I then call a method on this new obj...

Internet Explorer table 1 pixel spacing problem

I've found a strange problem with Internet Explorer related to table spacing and cannot find a way to work around it. An empty table results in a single pixel white space with Internet Explorer (6 and 7, 8 not yet tested), while all other browsers ignore the empty table. Here's a picture of the problem: And here is the minimum HTML co...

JW flv player IE doesn't work

Hey I've embedded JW flv player in my website. and it works perfect in chrome and firefox. But in all IE version it won't show up :S. What's wrong with my code ? <script type="text/javascript" src="/flash/swfobject.js"></script> <br /> <div id="player" style="margin: 0 0 5px 0;">This text will be replaced</div> <script type="text/jav...

Fiddler 2 Wipes My Internet Explorer Proxy Settings

I just started using Fiddler 2 to create request objects for REST,JSON, and SOAP based services that I have been creating. It has worked great so far. The problem came when I attempted to use some of my company resources through Internet Explorer. I was getting some sort of a DNS error, which I realized was happening because my proxy s...

Is there a tool that can record Internet Explorer DOM events and record them into XML or TXT?

This tool have to record all (or filtred) DOM events of Internet Explorer and allow to record them into an XML File or a Text file. ...

How do I write an IE 8 Add-On in pure managed C#

I would like to write an add-on for IE 8, but I want to use pure managed C#. Is this possible yet? I know for the longest time we were talking only C++. ...

Need help with IE8 and IE7 showing the nav in the hover on state with jquery...

I just finished Dragon Interactive's brilliant fading rollover tutorial, but the darn thing loads with the hovered state in Explorer...works great in every other browser...no surprises there (doesn't even work in IE6 but I could care less about that). If anyone knows how to tell Explorer how to play nicely with my script, the page is her...

<object> alternate content containing a script tag won't document.write in IE

I'd like to display a Flickr badge as alternate content when a user doesn't have Silverlight installed to display my Flickr Silvrlight App. This works in Firefox, but not in IE: <object width="100%" height="100%" type="application/x-silverlight-2" data="data:application/x-silverlight-2," id="SilverlightObject"> <param value="/Client...

Why does Internet Explorer need the "hasLayout" flag?

Like many developers working on web sites for Internet Explorer, I seem to come across a lot of bugs that are caused by the notorious hasLayout flag. I understand what this flag does and how it works (for the most part). A good explanation I read the other day (although I can't find the source) is that hasLayout in IE essentially means ...

Complex CSS Text-Shadow and cross browser compatibility

<html> <body> <style type='text/css'> body { font: 100% myriad, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color:white; font-weight:bold; } .shadowtext { text-shadow:-0.1em 0 0.1em #626262, 0.1em 0 0.1em #626262, 0 -0.1em 0.1em #626262, 0 0.1em 0.1em #626262; } .shadowtext_text { ...

IE7 popup, hide the url bar

when i do window.open to do pop up on new window. i unable to hide the url bar in ie7. it still show the url bar even though it's read only. can hide it? i do not want user to see the url ...

ExternalInterface not working in IE

I am trying to call an action in a flash object from the javascript: as: function testExternalConnection(str:String):Void { _root.debug.htmlText = "testExternalConnection ok"; } ExternalInterface.addCallback("testExternalConnection", this, testExternalConnection); js: var movie = getFlashMovie("ap1_mod_hidden") movie.testExterna...

input text/textarea size

form: <form id="defineForm" method="POST" action="api/test"> <fieldset> <legend>Generale</legend> <input type="text" name="id" size="60" maxlength="60"/> <input type="text" name="descr" size="60"/> <textarea name="longDescr" cols="62" rows="10"></textarea> using cols="62" for "longDescr" and size="60" for...

Why is Google Maps infoWindow size is different in IE than FF?

I am trying to optimize the usage of the google mas API and have come to an interesting cunundrum. To give greater feed back to the user I am opening the info window using: marker.openInfoWindowHtml(//loader code//) when the user click on the marker. I am loading the infoWindow content via AJAX so after the initial open of the wind...

IE 8 and javascript debugger

I upgrade my IE last week, and now i can't disabled the javascript debugger for visual studio 2008. The checkbox in the IE options are uncheck but the debugger in visual studio still enable. Any idea ? ps : I got Ie 8.0.6001.18783 ...

Background images disappearing in IE6

I've seen a lot of IE6 bugs, but this one beats everything. A page will display fine, but if I start loading a Table tag on the page sometime, most of the background images will disappear. I'm not 100% sure that it's because of the Table tag per se, but the only pages that break are the one with tables in them. I'm creating these tabl...

WatiN LogonDialogHandler & Windows 2000

I'm having trouble logging into a secure site with a WatiN LogonDialogHandler running on a IE6 / Windows 2000 machine. It doesn't fill in the userid/password for the proxy site, but works fine on a IE7 / Windows XP machine. Has anyone ever had/solved this problem? I found the same question on dream.in.code, but it's unanswered. I kno...

Jquery image resizing bug in Internet Explorer 8 and 6.

Hi guys. I've designed a website using some Jquery techniques. My problem is that in some random cases, Internet Explorer 8 and 6 can make the images look smaller than they should be. I didn't check with Explorer 7, but it's probably there too... Note that resizing the page might be more liable to cause these problems, and in fact, the c...