internet-explorer

IE 8 Developer Tools not working In Windows?

Hello all, I am using Internet Explorer 8, not by choice. I need to debug a script in it. However, no matter how many times I click the Developer Tools Icon, under Tools or click F12 it will not show up. Sometimes, I can see that it is minimized in the taskbar but when I actually go to click it. It will not show up... Does anyone know h...

Creating a "Unsafe" File Format - OK on Local File System, but Prompt from Browser

What is the correct way to create a file extension (and maybe a MIME type) that will run from your local file system without prompt, but if you browsed to that file through Internet Explorer or Firefox you would get prompted (warned)? What is the exact mechanism in the windows registry that controls this? ...

Reading CSS height/width value are Xpx in FF while 'auto' in IE

Div box dimensions are measured using jQuery with following code: $(document).ready(function(){ var h = $("#testbox").css("height"); }); In FF it gives for me 270px, in IE auto. How can I measure actual div height/width in IE without changing it's css? ...

IE - "This page contains both secure and non-secure items"...

I've googled and googled for an answer to this and have found loads of answers - all saying pretty much the same thing. Remove any absolute references to images, scripts etc. I did that, but it's made no difference. I searched the code for the string "http://" and made them relative (I've then changed some of the outbound links back t...

In what circumstance does IE8 repeat words(text) in multilines textboxes?

This is a work question generalized so it can help other people with this nightmare. I deployed an ASP.net application on four PC Machines. This application asks them to enter data in many textboxes that are multiline as they LOVE to write. They are using IE8 with compatability mode that I have hardcoded into the httpheaders. The error ...

JQuery AJAX IE Inconsistencies

Hi people, Another Internet Explorer issue! The fun never ends does it... This one is related to AJAX and IE. I'm using JQuery to help build a function, that pulls in new HTML content using a PHP page, pre-loads it, and then switches the content over with the old content. Here is my code below: function showcase() { document.getElem...

table cell width won't change in IE7 if select element content is changed via JavaScript

I have a table in my web site, with a select element in one of the cells. If I try to change the content of the element, everything works fine in most of the browsers that I've tried (including IE6, surprisingly enough), but in IE7, the table cell does not adjust its width to fit the select element. Is there any way to make the table cel...

how to develop internet explorer add-on

Can we create add-on for IE? If yes where can i find required resources/docs? ...

how to set custom http header

hi, I want to set the emulateIE7 tag on per site basis. For that i'l need to set the same tag in http header. I am using jboss. So can anyone please tell me how to add custom http header in jboss.. ...

OpenLayers vector bug in IE ?!

Is there any chance that IE is not rendering vectors for OpenLayers when the vector layer is hidden? ...

dijit.form.NumberSpinner arrows on IE6

Hi, When using the dijit.form.NumberSpinner widget, the arrow buttons don't show up on IE6, unless I throw a lot of alert()s during init. It seems they don't get rendered (properly) Any ideas? PS. I'm using dojo 1.3.2 with the tundra theme ...

Open Flash Chart 2 IE doesn't load new data for chart

I have OFC2 chart in my page and when user selectes choice, then it will make another request to server with parameters and OFC2 should load new data from server, but IE won't load new data, but it shos old data instead. It works well in other browsers, but not in IE. What could be the problem here, and how can I solve it? ...

Javascript RegExp does not work in IE

The parameter *return_value* contains <textarea>{"id":43,"description":"","item_id":28,"callback":"addNewAttachment","filename":"foo.jpg",,"type":"posts","ext":"jpg","size":145}</textarea> The next code removes the textarea tags in Firefox, Chrome, so the content can be accessed in arr[1]. In IE alert("Failure") is called. funct...

Why Content-Length is 0 while sending POST request with XMLHttpRequest object?

I have a virtual directory on IIS 5.1 with two aspx pages. Access to Page1 configured as "Integrated Windows Authentication" option turned on and anonymous access is disabled. Page2 available through anonymous access. On client side there is XmlHttpRequest object that can send requests that contains POST data to this pages. At first I t...

What to do when there are two cookies with the same name in IE7?

Some background: CakePHP writes it's own session id cookie besides the PHPSESSID. This is used to authenticate a request. Then an SWFupload sends a file, and that token to authenticate, and is picked up as a new user agent - so in cakephp you must disable the "check-user-agent" security feature. On many browsers this is enough. IE7 ve...

How to modify CommandBandLayout reg key value

How can I modify [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\LowRegistry\CommandBar] CommandBandLayout value to make sure my addon is first in the command bar? any help here appreciated Thanks, Manoj ...

Internet Explorer and <select> tag problem

I am having the following problem under Internet Explorer 7/8: I have a popup that gets activated when user mouseover a link. The popup is a simple <div> that contains some data. Inside this <div> tag there is a <select> tag with some <option>s. I have attached mouseover/mouseout events to the <div>, so that this popup will stay open wh...

IE - Certain querystring Hangs Page

I have a site that has worked fine for a while. Recently, any form passed as a querystring ('GET') that has the words "SELECT", "FROM", and "WHERE" in it causes the page to hang and, eventually, give a "Page not found..." error. It looks like this only happens with IE, not Firefox, but has been confirmed using several clients. Also, i...

Why is gzip compression with Internet Explorer not working?

My site is gzipped compressed, and it doesn't load properly in IE. It works fine in FF/Chrome, but in IE, the only thing that pops up is a box asking to download the .gz file which contains the html document for the page. Is this normal? Do I have to turn off gzip? ...

IE8 button graphics

Hi, Where does IE and windows store its graphics components, like the minimize, maximize, close buttons? I want to use them in a custom project and have done all the usual searches but can't find the graphics store. Thanks, R. ...