internet-explorer

Jquery after ie8/ie7 not working

I'm trying to insert data after an existing DOM element. I'm getting an error "Invalid argument." -- this.parentNode.insertBefore This is not working in IE8 or IE7. Ideas? Jfiddle example: http://jsfiddle.net/zJ3Fe/ <a href="#" id="delete_promo">Click</a> <div id="customer-info" class="span-12"> <form id="UserFormCheckoutFor...

How to clear IE's favicon cache?

i have a favorite icon defined for my web-site: <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico"> Any browser that has visted the site after i added the icon can display the favicon fine. But my own browser refuses to show the icon. i've tried every variation of the link i can think of: <link rel="shortcut icon" type...

What percent of the time is unload or onunload called? And Why?

Hi all, I have heard in the past unload, or onunload, is not always called. However, I would like to know how often it is not called. What conditions lead to it not being called? Is this different for Firefox and IE? Thanks, Grae ...

Menu doesn't display in IE7

Can you check this page and let me know why the menu doesn't work on IE7? It shows up all the way on the right, almost out of view: http://bit.ly/9hhDY5 The page works okay in other browsers (including IE8 and IE9). Thanks. ...

Dropdown menu hides behind other elements in IE

I have installed the Boldy theme from site5 on one of my projects and have run into one major problem. When browsing in internet explorer (8 or lower), the top dropdown menu gets displayed behind some other elements (main content slider, H1's etc.). I've tried everything from changing all the z-index's to fixed positions, with no luck. ...

LinkButton's OnClick does not fire in IE8

The following works just fine in Chrome. <asp:LinkButton runat="server" ID="lbEdit" OnClick="lbEdit_Click"> <button type="button" class="edit"> Edit </button> </asp:LinkButton> And here is the CSS for button and its subclass. button { padding: 3px; } button.edit { background:#3f6096; border:none; ...

jQuery Ajax request to local disk with IE takes too long

I have an application which is javascript and HTML to be delivered with about 500 short (18MB) videos on 2 physical discs. I'm making an ajax request to check a file exists before displaying it, if it does not I prompt the user to insert the other disc. video.innerHTML = "<p class=\"no-video\">Working...</p>"; $.ajax({ url: "movi...

File uploading in IE with umlauts in filename

I have this file upload and it works in Firefox fine, but when I upload file n IE and filename has umlauts, then filename is corrupted. After file is uploaded I echo filename and filename is corrupted like in my example. Example: ä.png is converted to ä.png ...

Website displays badly in IE 8, but works fine in other browsers

Hi! http://test.rfinvestments.co.za I've been working on this website for a little while and, now that it's online, I'm frustrated with cross-browser compatibility issues that don't present themselves when I view the site from my pc. If you view the site in Google Chrome, you should see it exactly as it's meant to be seen. In IE 8, I'v...

Internet Explorer CSS position problem

Hi I'm new to CSS, so this question maybe is stupid, but... I have a web page (the code below is a simplification), where I put some structure and a css for positioning. If you look, in the code the content comes before the headers (not the html headers, the "pages menus"), but with CSS I put that menus on top of the page. So, basicall...

IE7+ Rounded Corners w/ jQueryUI

I'm not really sure how to accomplish this with this theme. The Filament Group has shown some promise in this demo. But not all that glimmers is gold, since the accordion and other plugins won't work correctly (it's a work in progress). Related questions include: Round Corners in IE using ui-corner-all ...

Lightbox 2 and IE

Why when I click on lightbox thumbnail IE opens image in new window, but Mozilla and Chrome open image using lightbox effect? there code <a href="/sites/default/files/photo-7-5e02f57b1cd470c.jpg" rel="Lightbox[album][]" class="lightbox-processed"><img src="/sites/default/files/photo-7-5e02f57b1cd470c.jpg" width="130" height="100" style...

Internet Explorer only browser not to connect to site on local network

I am using VMWare Fusion on my mac to test sites on a windows XP virtual machine (ie6). My mac has the Static IP 192.168.0.220 and the site is being hosted via django, using port 8000. Using both Bridged and NAT mode I can successfully access this site using either Chrome or Firefox (installed on the windows virtual machine) through ht...

Using setTimeout to bypass IE script warning

Hi, I'm trying to write a web app that uses Javascript to perform a fairly complex calculation (involves factorials and Bessel functions). When I run the script in IE, it gives me a warning that the script is unresponsive or taking a long time, and asks if I want to continue running it. I've read that to get around this, you can use e...

How to get rid of "click to activate and use this control" prompt for Flash in IE?

Our client is getting "click to activate and use this control" over our Flash component in IE. What's a good fix? Thanks EDIT: Is this something that SWFObject fixes? We're using the standard Flash embed code... ...

Internet explorer 7/8 support of normal event passing, no need for window.event ???

It is common knowledge that Internet explorer does not support event passing to event handler functions like this one: function clickHandler(e) { // e is undefined in IE e = e || window.event; { For my surprise today, I found out that actually it does. I forgot to do this "e = e || window.event" trick in one of my functions, but i...

Is there a fast way to .remove table rows with jQuery

I have a table of 50 odd rows with 11 columns. Each row has a unique id made up of id="row_<clientid>_rownumber". There is a checkbox in the second column with id="group_<clientid>_<petid>_rownumber" When the user clicks a checkbox I want to remove all rows except any that belong to the selected client. I have code that works as follo...

Is there any way to capture the screen shot of the entire page using selenium RC on IE?

I use Java for scripting. i have tried using the ROBOT class, but i am still not able to capture what is on the entire page(i get the screen dimensions and capture the image, if an extra value is added to the height/width the Page content is not captured where as a black screen is added). In short is there any way to implement captureEnt...

Load google RSS feed in IE

Hi, I'am writing a code using Google-Ajax-Feed-API to get feed from site. Here is my code for the same. <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> <title>Google AJAX Feed API - Simple Example</title> <script type="text/javascript...

jQuery buttons in Internet Explorer

I'm using jQuery buttons on my page. Whenever I click one of them the Internet Explorer adds an ugly black border because the button is active. When I brows the jQuery button sample page with IE this border is not visible when I click one of the example buttons. Why not?? How do they avoid this border? I checked their CSS files but coul...