internet-explorer

sifr not working on internet explorer

Hi Please have a look here: www.blokeswhobake.co.nz - sifr works great, except it does not want to work with internet explorer. I have had the same problems on a number of sites. I have no idea what I am doing wrong. Thanks for your help ...

is there a way to trigger an IE window to open from firefox browser using php and javascript?

i am using simpletest as my php unit test framework. i put all my test cases into a single all_tests.php file however, because of the tendency of our developers to use firefox to run the all_tests.php, we tend to miss out on fail cases that are browser specific, especially ie7. is there a way that when somebody browse our all_tests.ph...

AJAX document.getElementById().innerHTML problem with IE?

Before someone said that I did not read I may say that I read almost everything linked with my question. But I couldn't find my answer. So, I have a simple AJAX script that loads my external file inside predefined div. This is the code of those script: function loadTwitter() { var xmlHttp; try { // Firefox, Opera 8.0+,...

Menu incorrect in IE6

Hello, I've several problems with IE6 There are 2 unordered lists which do not look fine in IE6. This is a snapshot from Firefox 3.5: http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/2772/ff35.gif IE6: http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/7321/40553149.gif The code: CSS #nav-black { height: 37px; background:#000; } #nav-black ul.left { floa...

ie associative array initialisation fails

I have declared an array in the form: var refs = { 'EE810': "Presence Detector 1 Channel", 'EE871': "Motion Detector Outdoor 220/360Deg Blk", 'EE870': "Motion Detector Outdoor 220/360Deg WH", 'EE811': "Presence Detector 2 Channel", 'EE805': "Motion Detector Indoor White Flush", 'EE862': "Motion Detector Alum Outdoor 220 Deg", } ...

IE image width & height = 0 before image downloaded

I'm trying to set the width & height property of an image element i've created in javascript. In FF, Opera & Chrome it's sets the width & height correctly. However in IE 6 & 7 (Haven't tried 8) the width & height remain 0 until the image is downloaded. The reason I need this is so that i can position each image in rows & cols based on it...

jQuery click function on LI doesn't work in IE

I have a problem which is driving me nuts. I'm a relative Javascript newbie so please be kind :). I have some existing code for a left navigation menu that makes use of the Treeview plugin for jQuery (http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-treeview/). To quickly explain it, where a line item has more line items under it, a l...

test website compatability with IE7

Hi, I would like to see how my website renders in IE7. Unfortunately, my computer has IE8 installed, and I don't know how to downgrade to IE7. I've considered using the IE Tab Firefox plugin but reviews seem fairly mixed and I'm not sure how accurately it emulates IE7. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Don ...

BG images rendering problem in IE

I have multiple background images (all of my images are either in jpg or gif format) in my website and it renders smoothly in firefox, but some of those images doesn't render in IE and when I scroll through the page some of the images renders and then disappears again. This implies with css sprites too. ...

Enabling/disabling proxy app doesn't work properly with IE.

I have a really strange situation here: I've written an app that, among other things, switches connections' proxy from on to off and the other way round. It is done by changing the value in the registry: public void SetUpProxy(string proxy, bool enable) { RegistryKey key = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("Software\\Microsoft\\Wind...

IE PNG fix problem

I have applied ie PNG from here: http://www.twinhelix.com/css/iepngfix/ So I can use transparent PNG background images in my CSS. It works on divs but the problem is when I give a transparent background to unordered list (ul) it doesn't work. Here is the markup: <div id="footer"> <ul> <li><a href="#">Link 1</a></li> ...

cancel or abort ajax call in ie 6,7,8

how can i cancel a simple js ajax call while its being performed? ...

IE jQuery problem

HTML: <div id="media-photo"> <img src="/uploads/photos/16.jpg" alt="" /> </div> <a href="/uploads/photos/5.jpg" class="img"> <img src="/uploads/photos-thumbs/5.jpg" alt="" /> </a> <a href="/uploads/photos/6.jpg" class="img"> <img src="/uploads/photos-thumbs/6.jpg" alt="" /> </a> JQUERY: $(document).ready(function() { ...

How can I open an IE window and run a Batch file once the tab is done loading?

Here is my current situation. I have a Classic ASP script that gathers data from multiple sources then creates an XML file. Only once the script is done running should the newly created XML file (static name) be copied to a remote server. Since ASP cannot see the mapped network drive, I can't use ASP to copy the file over to our server. ...

What is the syntax to check for element present using Style in IE

I have the following line that works for Firefox assertTrue(!selenium.isElementPresent("//input[@name=\""+chosen.getField().getName()+"\" and contains(@style, \"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\")]")); But Fails in IE. When i inspect the field in IE, i see the color style represented in hexadecimal. How would you represent the line above to w...

IE refresh breaking Flash

I have isolated an issue I am having with Flash in IE7+ but don't know how to fix it. The issue is when you first go to the flash website in IE everything works fine, but when you refresh nothing appears. I am dynamically loadng in XML and have added the caching fix found here so I have eliminated that bug. What I have discovered is that...

Weird CSS issue in IE7

Hi, I'm having a rare CSS issue in Internet Explorer 7 (I'm actually testing it on IE8 in compatibility view, but the client sent me screenshots in native IE7 too), it's easy to reproduce: Go to this site (spanish). On the left column, click the border (or somewhere around) the box labeled "Fiestas anteriores" The element should now be...

Forcing a DOM refresh in Internet explorer after javascript dom manipulation

Here is the situation. I have some javascript that looks like this: function onSubmit() { doSomeStuff(); someSpan.style.display="block"; otherSpan.style.display="none"; return doLongRunningOperation; } When I make this a form submit action, and run it from a non IE browser, it quickly swaps the two spans visibility and...

Z-index over an img?

Consider this page @ http://www.bloodbone.ws/screwed.html I need to be able to have the a.grow element expand to the dimensions of the div.column-header so that if you target anywhere in the div the whole area is clickable. It works in Firefox + Safari, but I can't get it to work in any IE browser. The h2 and img elements always break...

Interpreting Accept Headers as intended in IE and Webkit

I developed a web app that responds with data in the format as specified by the client in the HTTP Accept Headers. Everything worked fine while using Firefox, but when I wanted to check my CSS / HTML on Chrome and IE, both of them wanted to download the index page, as if it's an unknown content type. After some research I found this art...