Table cell loses border when css gradient filter is applied in IE8
Applying this also works: position: relative; z-index: -1;
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IE8 native JSON.parse bug causes stack overflow
This was just patched. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976662 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc836466(VS.85).aspx
What specific things cause IE8 to trigger compatibility mode?
After a long debugging session (using old school alerts to pinpoint what was failing where), this seemingly innocous line of dom manipulation was the culprit: document.getElementById(“literal”+varValue).style.display = “none”; There was no error here, and the element was apparently found (ie, this is not a garden variety null pointer). This is a large scale app, and … Read more
Why can’t I debug from Visual Studio 2005 after installing IE8?
A colleague of mine was having similar issues and found this: IE 8 has a feature called Loosely-Coupled Internet Explorer (LCIE) which results in IE running across multiple processes. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/readiness/developers-existing.aspx#lcie Older versions of the Visual Studio Debugger get confused by this and cannot figure out how to attach to the correct process. You can work … Read more
IE8 non-compatibility mode, image with max-width and height:auto
I’m not sure of the root cause but if you add width: auto; then it works.
Why jsfiddle is not rendering at all in IE8 and previous versions?
You can find more info here. In short: For all unsupported browsers (like IE8 or mobile phones) please use DRAFT feature. Log in to the service on your favourite browser. Create fiddle and Run it On IE8 open the http://jsfiddle.net/draft/
Why will this div/img not center in IE8?
Do you really want your page to work in quirks mode? Your HTML centers fine once I added doctype to to force standards mode: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd”> <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xml:lang=”en”> <head> <title>Welcome</title> <style> #pageContainer {width:300px;margin:0 auto;text-align:center;} #toLogo{border:none; } </style> </head> <body> <div id=”pageContainer”> <a href=”http://portal.thesit.com” id=”toSite”> <img src=”http://stackoverflow.com/content/img/so/logo.png” id=”toLogo”></a> </div> </body> … Read more
Why does a filter gradient on a pseudo element not work in IE8?
The question is “Why don’t filters work on pseudo elements in IE8?” The following is as close to a definitive answer as I can muster. It comes from the information on this page. The gradient filter is a “procedural surface” (along with alphaimageloader). A procedural surface is defined so: Procedural surfaces are colored surfaces that … Read more
contenteditable=false inside contenteditable=true block is still editable in IE8
Okay, I already have discovered the answer much like how Penicillin was discovered. You see, playing around with this code, I mistakenly set contenteditable to true for the span and voila! It worked! So, to make a span NON-contenteditable inside a contenteditable div, you just set its contenteditable attribute to true! <div contenteditable=”true”> Luke, I … Read more
FIX CSS
If you want this to work in IE 8 and below, use <!–[if lte IE 8]> lte meaning “Less than or equal”. For more on conditional comments, see e.g. the quirksmode.org page.