IE8 includes a trident token in the User-Agent string regardless of compatibility mode. See MSDN for more details: The Internet Explorer 8 User-Agent String (Updated Edition) IE7 on Windows Vista Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0) IE8 on Windows Vista (Compatibility View) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0) IE8 on Windows Vista … Read more
Check that your page isn’t in Quirks mode or Compatibility mode. You can use the F12 dev tools to confirm this. Press F12 and look in the top-right corner of the resulting window. If you see “Compatibility” or “Quirks” in the mode description, then you’ve found the problem. Quirks mode: this is usually triggered by … Read more
That should work fine in IE8. A stab in the dark: Make sure you have a doctype as the very first line of your HTML that triggers Standards Mode, such as: <!DOCTYPE html> In Quirks Mode, IE emulates version 5.5, which does not support :hover on elements other than a.
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
You can access IE8 script console by launching the “Developer Tools” (F12). Click the “Script” tab, then click “Console” on the right. From within your JavaScript code, you can do any of the following: <script type=”text/javascript”> console.log(‘some msg’); console.info(‘information’); console.warn(‘some warning’); console.error(‘some error’); console.assert(false, ‘YOU FAIL’); </script> Also, you can clear the Console by calling … Read more
In older browsers, you can write a function that will parse the string for you. This one creates a Date.fromISO method- if the browser can natively get the correct date from an ISO string, the native method is used. Some browsers got it partly right, but returned the wrong timezone, so just checking for NaN … Read more
It looks like under IE8 the keyCode property of window.Event is undefined but that same property of window.event (note the lowercase e) has the value. You might try using window.event. function doSubmit(e) { var keyCode = (window.event) ? e.which : e.keyCode; if (keyCode == 13) document.getElementById(“ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Login”).click(); }
I had a similar problem with my app, but I can’t reproduce the focus problem with your code. My problem was slightly different in that my page had a link hash that made IE not give my element focus. Anyway, to get around the problem I added a timeout: setTimeout(function () { $(‘.my-thing’).focus(); }, 100); … Read more
The new ‘standards’ mode of IE8 turns off some nonstandard features. Among them VML, which is used by excanvas. I just set for IE7 ‘standards’ mode, so it still works. <meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=7″ /> Frustrating, but i don’t know of any advantage brought up by IE8.
This example is from IE8, but the same return is from IE6+ and most other IE browsers. IE before #9 does not define it for host objects var o=window;// or document or document elements o.hasOwnProperty /* returned value: (undefined) undefined */