internet-explorer

How Can I Prevent Memory Leaks in IE Mobile?

Hi All, I've written an application for use offline (with Google Gears) on devices using IE Mobile. The devices are experiencing memory leaks at such a rate that the device becomes unusable over time. The problem page fetches entries from the local Gears database and renders a table of each entry with a link in the last column of each ...

Where can I find technical information on IE internal methods and objects?

I am an html coder, and I am still fighting a hard-to-reproduce crash in IE 8. Okay, I managed to get a crash dump out of it and I unpacked (decoded? deciphered?) it. Now I have a stack trace of what was happening before the crash and I want to find out what went wrong. It goes like this: BUGCHECK_STR: APPLICATION_FAULT_NULL_POINTER_RE...

Why does my IE progress bar keep going after every other page load?

I'm seeing this issue. I have a relatively simple ASP.NET page with a gridview and some buttons. When I click a button, the page re-binds the grid and posts back. What's strange is that every other time I click the refresh button, the IE progress bar (in the status area) stays "on", signaling that the user that the page is still loadin...

Why bullet not shown in IE6

It shows in firefox,but no in IE(in fact mine is IE6) <style type="text/css"> li { list-style-type:disc; } </style> <div style="margin: 2px auto 15px; padding: 5px 0px; width: 480px; text-align: center;"> <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; list-style-position: outside; overflow: visible;"> <li ><em>test.</em> 111</li...

Inline UL element not working in IE7

Below is an entire test page that I'm working on (I realize that it is still ugly and cluttered). My issue is with the ul class="dropdown". I'm intending on it being a replacement for a SELECT so I can style it (again, not done yet). However, I cannot seem to position it where I want it. If you look at this page in FF3.5, that is how...

How to focus an HTML checkbox in IE, causing it to gain highlight

I'm having some trouble programmatically causing an HTML checkbox object to become highlighted after gaining focus. Here is a simple example of the code I'm using: <script type="text/javascript"> function doIt(){ document.getElementById("theCheckbox").focus(); } </script> <input type="button" onClick="doIt()" value="Pus...

content of page pushed WAAYY over in IE, but only when the css position is absolute...

okay, so if you go to the website that I've been working on: http://www.charmscorp.com/inspect/projects.php in firefox, the site looks how it's supposed to (don't mind the slow load up time, it's a server issue). You will have to wait a few seconds for the content to fully load. If you rollover the tabs, it all works fine in IE8, the ...

How can I click a link using it's HTML with Watir

I have a link that looks like this: <a href="#" onclick="new Ajax.Request('/data_entry/ajax_add_term/131?contract_id=227', {asynchronous:true, evalScripts:true}); return false;">add a term</a> I would like to click it using contract_id=227. ...

Live element attribute editing in IE7

Is there anything for IE that would allow me to edit attributes of DOM elements live, like Firebug does for Firefox? So far, I have only found DOM inspectors - Developer Toolbar, DebugBar, Firebug Lite. None of them allow editing the elements, only looking up/highlighting them :( ...

IE 7 and 8 SSL download from simple HTML page not working, tomcat server

Hello, I have a simple HTML file which has one link to a file kept for download. The site uses SSL (self signed cert). When I click on the file to be downloaded in FF or Chrome, it works fine and saves the file on to disk. Here is the code- <html><body> download from <a href="hello.tar.gz">here</a></body></html> When I open the same...

Why doesn't this drop down menu work in IE?

I have a drop down menu which I found a tutorial for. In Firefox and Opera the drop down menu works fine. But in Internet Explorer it doesn't work. The sub menues are misaligned. They aren't placed under their parent item but a bit more to the right. Why doesn't it work in IE? Is there a mistake in the JavaScript code which should make...

IE7 Bug where text gets cut off inside a child div

I have been struggling with this issue for a while. I have a problem with text inside a child div being cut off in IE7 or 8. Works fine in other browsers. parent div - float left child div - no height, text gets cut off I have tried a few hacks and methods I found googling but nothing works, please help! Thanks ...

rails: 404.html is not rendered in IE

Hi, I have an rails app which redirects wrong urls to "/". I made 404.html file and it has the following code. <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- window.location = "http://www.mydomain.com/" //--> </script> It works well in Firefox but IE doesn't redirect. IE draws its own "The webpage cannot be found." page. I checked log ...

Cookies on a remote site with IE

Hi all, We’re generating a video and pushing it to our client's web site. You can see it here, as an example: http://www.expresspassport.com/ We're calling the code by a remote JavaScript file that injects a few DOM elements. We're also setting a cookie to handle repeat visitors in a different behavior then new visitors. Up until a...

Problem with Internet Explorer Padding

I can't get IE padding around my <a> tags to work correctly. This only works in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, but not IE - please help! My simplified HTML code looks like this: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; ...

CSS Hover & onmouseover/out causing 15-20% CPU Usage in Internet Explorer

Hello, is there any reason why Internet Explorer (IE7 in my case) gets sluggish and eats up lots of CPU time when using the CSS :hover command or using onmouseover/onmouseout? I'm really not doing anything complex, nor is my page particularly large. When I move my mouse anywhere else on the page (where nothing is changing) iexplore.ex...

Session unexpectedly lost?

Hi, I'm at a loss with an annoying issue to do with exporting a report. Basically, a button is pressed and a report is generated server side using the following javascript:- __callExportController(true, { op: 'build', type: exportType }, function(data) { var outputURL = './reportinc/export_controller.php?op=output&filename='; va...

Detecting java disabled in explorer

Hi, Is there a way to detect if java is disabled in Explorer? navigator.javaEnabled() //This always returns true even if java is not installed ...

When is ieaksie.dll registered as InProcServer32 for InternetExplorer.Application?

One of my guys had a problem when instantiating InternetExplorer.Application from VB6 and VBScript. It turned out that he (but no one else on the team) had the following entry in the registry apart from the expected (and working) LocalServer32 entry which creates an instance out-of-process using iexplore.exe: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID{00...

How can I access the second element with the same attributes using Watir?

I have a page with HTML like this: <a href="1">reply</a> <a href="2">reply</a> I need to get value of href attribute for the second link. I can not use :text, because it will return href attribute for the first link. browser.link(:text, "reply").href => "{site}1" I can use :index, but if anything on that page changes, it could bre...