While I was working on modifying SHJS (a JavaScript syntax highlighter), I came across a very frustrating (and initially extremely puzzling) IE bug. Well, it might not be a bug, but it's a very strange and illogical behaviour. In short: IE performs text normalization when setting innerHTML. Sebastian Redl explains it in The Internet Explorer innerHTML Quirk. Read the full text...
Posted 080924, in: English, Web, JavaScript
Tags: ie6, innerHTML
This is a bug fix release that solves the problems when there were empty instances of the elements used as containers for the addFirstChild method. Head over to the FixIE page to donwload the new version.
Posted 080218, in: English, Web, JavaScript
Tags: ie6, programming
FixIE is a little script that I've created to overcome a few of the CSS selector limitations in IE6. What it does is adding a few helper classes to certain elements/states, which then can be used in your .css files to reference those elements/states. In particular:
- It adds the"first-child" class to the first child of certain containers (by default UL and OL).
- It adds/removes the class "hover" to LI elements inside certain containers (by default an element with id="nav"), to provide support for CSS drop-down menus.
- It adds a class to all INPUT elements, matching their type. That is, all inputs of type "text" will also have the class "text", and so on.
It is possible to configure the first two features, choosing any number of containers. For example, you could add first-child functionality to all divs, or apply the hover functionality to several navigation menus (see the JS source). Read the full text...
Posted 080215, in: English, Web, JavaScript
Tags: ie6, programming
