Archive for the ‘Internet Explorer’ Category

Annoying, uncommon bugs

Posted by james on January 19th, 2007 under Internet Explorer, Javascript
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This post is dedicated to those little bugs that only seem to happen to your project, and no one else on the Internet. Luckily, this wasn’t completely the case this time, as I did manage to find some links after modifying my search query numerous times.
First of all, something arbitrary:
Prototype 1.5.0_rc2’s AJAX works in IE, [...]

Internet Explorer 7 and !important

Posted by michael on December 18th, 2006 under Hacks, Internet Explorer
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Internet Explorer versions 6 and below didn’t not parse the !important css modifier correctly - this allowed you to specify styles for browsers like Firefox and such, using the following syntax:
identifier {
  background: #000 !important; /* Firefox */
  background: #FF0000; /* IE */
}
The element’s background will be set to red because the red declaration is after the [...]