internet-explorer

IE7 fails after reload of Orbited powered page

Hello! I am working on an Orbited-powered website and I'm experiencing some annoying behavior with IE7. Everything works fine and dandy in FF3, but in IE7, I get a recurring error if I reload the page: Error: Can't execute code from a freed script In other words, the site works in IE7 when you first browse to it, but breaks after a ...

How do you prevent downloads from being run instead of saved in IE

When you create a link to an executable file intended for download (like say update.exe), on a web page, IE7 gives the user the option to "Run" or "Save". I don't want users to be running the update file they should be downloading. Is it possible to disable the "Save" option on the dialog the IE displays, or even force the download auto...

Open" the csv file format into Excel from internet explorer 6

I am using Java Struts, sending it to user using the following codes response.setContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel"); response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=" + fileFullName); Firstly I hope that this is the correct place for my question... :) I hope that you can help me. The error message I get when I tr...

How can I view more than one version of IE on my computer?

Where I work we only have IE 7. I want to view IE 6 on my computer also. How can I view both on the same computer? I want more than just a screen shot. I want to view both versions of IE as I write code. ...

How to stop IE asking which debugger to choose when **trying** to debug?

When debugging in Internet Explorer; I first get an alert box with extremely limited if not useless information (sorry IE) and choice to debug it; After selecting yes; I get another option every time to chose between 'New instance of Microsoft script debugger' and 'New instance of Visual studio'. I'm fed up of having to click the yes but...

Changing the Text in Internet Explorer (7.0) title bar and Tab

Hello, When i open some website, can i as a end-user make the Text printed in the IE title bar at top disappear(make it blank or change it to my own text). e.g. While typing this question my IE title bar says Ask a Question - Stack Overflow - Windows Internet Explorer I want to make that blank without at my browser end by way of s...

"Stack Overflow in Line 0" on Internet Explorer

I realise this is not the ideal place to ask about this in terms of searchability, but I've got a page whose JavaScript throws "Stack overflow in line 0" errors when I look at it in Internet Explorer. The problem is quite clearly not in Line 0, but somewhere in the list of stuff that I'm writing to the document, but I cannot work out fo...

How do I get IE to open a file with its associated application?

MSTest produces an XML file with a .trx extension containing test results. If I have a .trx file on a machine without Visual Studio installed, I get prompted to "Use the Web Service..." or "Select from a list...", which is expected. If I have a .trx file on my development machine and I open it, it opens in Visual Studio, which is expect...

Does the Internet explorer web developer toolbar work with popups?

I cannot get the internet explorer web developer tool bar to work with a pop-up, it won't render at the bottom of the pop-up. Any suggestions? ...

How to refresh Internet Explorer using SendMessage?

Hi, does anybody know how to refresh the Internet Explorer (like by pressingthe F5 key) but using some "backdoor" like PostMessage or SendMessage? The internet Explorer Window is not active so I can't use the keyboard. Thanks (Language doesnt matter) ...

How do I do advanced printing from a web application?

I have been researching options for printing report-like data via a web application. Some options that are viable are writing PDFs, Excel XML, dumping HTML to Excel, or using a tool like activePDF webGrabber. I suppose the question is, what are some solution that give control over print from a browser (IE in my case) yet doesn't have a ...

css z-index question?

interview project Hi guys, I had to prepare the above site for an interview today. It isn't displaying properly in interenet explorer. I want the badge in the header/navigation bar to overlap the main content (as it does in firefox, safari etc). Why is it different in IE? how can i fix this? thanks alot, Peter ...

IE borders breaking navigation

Hi, another issue in IE 6... link The navbar link list has a border applied to the left side of each element. In fireforx/safari this matches up with the navbar background but in IE the border/element spills out below the navbar ( the border sticks out the bottom). EDIT: ALSO, the navbar is the entire length of the blue header in IE...

What is different with window and div widths between firefox and IE

I have a web page that uses a scrolling div to display table information. When the window is resized (and also on page load), the display is centered and the div's scrollbar positioned to the right of the page by setting its width. For some reason, the behaviour is different under firefox than IE. IE positions/sizes the div as expected, ...

prefilling dynamically created textbox with javascript in IE

I'm trying to dynamically add some textboxes (input type=text) to a page in javascript and prefill them. The textboxes are coming up, but they are coming up empty. What is the proper way to pre-fill a textbox. Ideally I'd love to use the trick of creating a child div, setting the innerhtml property, and then adding that div to the par...

ie useragent wxWidgets

Hello, Im currently using ie as an active x com thing on wxWidgets and was wanting to know if there is any easy way to change the user agent that will always work. Atm im changing the header but this only works when i manually load the link (i.e. call setUrl) ...

firefox/IE designMode reference needed

Hello All, I am looking for reference documentation for designMode in Firefox 2/3 and IE 6/7/8. Does anyone have links to good references? ...

Launching IE from winforms, can I close IE when my winforms closes?

Hi, I have a winforms application, that why someone clicks on a button I need to open up IE to a specific URL. When someone closes the winforms app, I then need to close IE. Is this possible? If yes, how? ...

Is there an Internet Explorer approved substitute for selectionStart and selectionEnd?

Finding out what's selected in real browsers is as simple as: var range = { start: textbox.selectionStart, end: textbox.selectionEnd } But IE, as usual, doesn't understand. What's the best cross-browser way to do this? ...

How do I make Internet Explorer Open Invisibly in VB6?

Doing like so: Shell ("C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe -embedding http://www.websiteurl.com") Doesn't work how I need it as I essentially need it to be able to redirect and prompt a user to download a file. Any ideas? ...