internet-explorer

What is some JavaScript that illustrates the speed differences between IE and FireFox (or Chrome, Safari, etc)

Recently, I've heard a number of different people lamenting the speed differences in IE versus pretty well every other browser when it comes to using JavaScript to manipulate the DOM. I thought I'd put together a tiny little script to see what the differences really were, but I think I'm looking at the wrong problem as IE performs as w...

Galleriffic not working in IE7 or IE8

Hi All Has anyone had any problems implementing Galleriffic with IE? My images are not coming through (IE& or 8) - there is just white space where the images should be. It is working fine for me in other browsers. Cheers ...

Weird spacing issues - IE8 works great, IE6 and IE7 bite

Checkout http://new.reyniersaudio.com/index.php?task=browse&view=model&modelId=17 and if you notice on IE8, Firefox, Chrome and Opera, the right sidebar shows proper spacing. In IE6 and IE7 it's way too spaced out. What do I have in my css that makes that happen. ...

Cannot get float left/right to work for a div in Internet Explorer.

Here is the html: <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css"/> <title></title> </head> <body> <div align="center"> <div id="main-header-content" class="content"> <div class="left"> Lorem ipsum do...

How can I get value of element custom attribute with Watir

I have HTML that looks like this: <input custom_attribute="so cool" type="text" /> I would like to get value of custom_attribute using Watir. ...

IE7 hover on div being lost when you touch a child element of that div

In Theory I have a div (container) that when hovered over one of its child divs appear (drop-down). Drop-down contains links images etc. and when I leave it and container then drop-down disappears. <div id="container"> <div>Hover over me to see extra stuff</div> <div id="drop-down"> <div> <img /> </div> <div> ...

Execute javascript trough Internet Explorer's com interface using PowerShell

I am writing some Internet Explorer automation scripts using PowerShell. Here is how I start the IE com object: $ie = New-Object -com "InternetExplorer.Application" $ie.Navigate("about:blank") $ie.visible = $true $doc = $ie.Document So, what I would like to do is to execute some javascript on the $doc object. For example, I have an i...

Jquery Thumbnail Scroller IE Issue

Hey. I am needing to get a thumbnail scroller to use for a project. I am unsure how to do this myself but feel what I want is basic. I am looking to simply have a div with left and right arrows that scroll through an array of images. I am trying to use prettyGallery (http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyGallery/) and I ...

Where does Internet Explorer 8 store its crash dumps?

I am fighting a bug which does not reproduce on my machine, but repeats every time on my client's machine. I've tried everything, and now I am looking for any debug data (or whatever) that IE8 leaves after a crash. Google and Microsoft searches gave me nothing. Where does Internet Explorer 8 store its crash dumps? It definetely sends som...

Significance of 'pagerror.gif'?

I'm getting strange hits to a non-existant file on my site called 'pagerror.gif'. From some basic Googling it appears to be a file that Internet Explorer looks for in certain situations. Can anyone verify that, and perhaps provide some additional information about when IE would look for that file? ...

How to check a particular browser add-on is installed or not in IE with javascript/vbScript

Hi, Is there any way to achieve this? Regards, Manoj ...

Table row height behavior in IE vs Firefox/Chrome/Safari

Consider the following simple html page markup: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; <head> <title></title> <style type="text/css"> body, html { height: 100%; ...

jQuery live, change in not working in IE6, IE7

The code below works as expected in FF but not in IEs... $(document).ready(function() { $('div.facet_dropdown select').live('change', function() { var changed_facet = $(this).attr('id'); var facets = $('select', $(this).closest('form')); var args = window.location.href.split('?')[0] + '?ajax=1'; var ...

can not use onmouseover event on select option in IE

why IE have so many problem ????? it waste lots of time..... Updated code : function getElements() { var x=document.getElementsByTagName("option"); var el = document.getElementById('selectDept'); el.onmouseover = function( myevent ) { // event = event || window.event.srcElement; if(myevent && myevent.target){ if ( myevent.t...

Could someone with a good IE JavaScript debugger help me out?

Can you please tell me what snippet of code is failing in IE8 on this page: http://www.gaiagps.com I am virtualizing IE on my Mac, and I have no debugger. Thanks a lot for your help! ...

CSS rendering on IE help needed

I am pulling my hair trying to find a fix for this problem. If you go to this site you will see that (under IE) the slider and the menu on the top is broken. Works fine under all modern browsers. Any idea how to fix this? Thanks. Edit: Want to add that the original site design works fine under IE. I did a massive amount of editing und...

Session_End called multiple times in the middle of a session

Am I using Session_End incorrectly? In my application, I have a cache to speed up page loads, it works quite well. Recently, someone suggested to me that I was leaking memory by never emptying it out, and to implement a method on Session_End that will clear out any cache entries associated with that session id. Occasionally though I st...

WebBrowser control: how to suppress message: do you want to close this window

Hi, I'm new to WebBrowser control. In the current project, we use WebBrowser control to integrate with existing project. All popup windows are displayed in a new windows form. When "javascript window:close" is called on the popup window, the IE instance always prompt: do you want to close this window. We're using WndProce to check WM_Des...

JavaScript: split doesn't work in IE???

Is there a reason why the following piece of code doesn't work in IE? While with FF and other sane browsers it splits the string by the given expression, in IE it simply doesn't work. var str = "abc<font id=\"something\">def</font>gh"; alert(str.split(/(\<.*?\>|.)/).length); Thank you. ...

How to access element with custom attribute using Watir?

I have HTML that looks like this: <input custom_attribute="so cool" type="text" /> I would like to enter text in it using Watir. ...