As far as I know, it’s not possible in IE because it uses the OS component. Here is a link where the control is replaced, but I don’t know if thats what you want to do. Edit: The link is broken I’m dumping the content <select> Something New, Part 1 By Aaron Gustafson So you’ve … Read more
I have heard of this before, but not with the exact text !ie7. I found a reference here: http://www.javascriptkit.com/dhtmltutors/csshacks3.shtml !ie Internet Explorer 7 fixed one of the issues with the !important identifier, but it still has problems when the identifier has an error in it. If an illegal identifier name is used in place of … Read more
This provides an internal property known as hasLayout in Internet Explorer versions 7 and lower. The definitive article on the subject is here: http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html A lot of Internet Explorer’s rendering inconsistencies can be fixed by giving an element “layout.” In this article, the authors focus on some aspects of this complicated matter. “Layout” is an … Read more
Ignoring installations where IE6 is mandated, consider segmenting your application, with basic (though non-buggy and usable) functionality available to IE6 users, and advanced functionality available only to newer browsers. Draw users to newer browsers with the promise of cool stuff.
As simple as this: if($.browser.msie && $.browser.version==”6.0″) alert(“Im the annoying IE6”); Update Please note that $.browser is removed from jQuery 1.9 If you still need to use $.browser in jQuery 1.9 (or other deprecated functions), try jQuery-migrate (https://github.com/jquery/jquery-migrate/ – http://code.jquery.com/jquery-migrate-1.2.1.js)
First, disable the currently installed version of Java. To do this, go to Control Panel > Java > Advanced > Default Java for Browsers and uncheck Microsoft Internet Explorer. Next, enable the version of Java you want to use instead. To do this, go to (for example) C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_15\bin (where jre1.5.0_15 is the version of … Read more
Try checking their user agent for ‘MSIE 6.’. $using_ie6 = (strpos($_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’], ‘MSIE 6.’) !== FALSE); This is based on this user agent information.
You could try IETester. Update In 2015 this is now the wrong answer to this question. See the accepted answer of the duplicate question linked above for a better solution (https://stackoverflow.com/a/574465/70795)
To modify an image proportionally, simply only alter one of the width/height css properties, leave the other set to auto. image.style.width=”50%” image.style.height=”auto” This will ensure that its aspect ratio remains the same. Bear in mind that browsers tend to suck at resizing images nicely – you’ll probably find that your resized image looks horrible.
Microsoft offer a number of Virtual PC images with various versions of IE for download. They now also offer VMs to run VirtualBox, VMware and Parallels on Windows, OSX and Linux.