Solved IE10 and SF drop downs

[Britton30]

Any time I use the drop down menus in the SF reply editor the menu disappears as soon as the cursor is place on it. If I hold the cursor there awhile then it may work. The menus at the top of the forum pages behave normally.

 

[nommy the first]

Just to be sure, you mean the options after you hit Go Advanced right, like post templates, sizes and Fonts?
If so, I couldn't reproduce the issue with IE10.
Take a look here for the IE troubleshooting guide and report back if none of the options fix the issue.


Good luck and keep us posted
Nommy

 

[ThrashZone]

You might verify what is being used here on sf,
F12 browser mode and document mode,
I've noticed for some reason ie10 likes to use ie7 standards for doc. mode ?
I've switched just to check what doc. mode as standards does without any difference.
Of course browser mode is ie10.

 

[Britton30]

I tried all steps except 4 and 5 since it's not applicable without any change.

It is the Font color, smiley, and attach file menus that are affected. Post template, Fint, and font size work fine.

 

[Britton30]

You might verify what is being used here on sf,
F12 browser mode and document mode,
I've noticed for some reason ie10 likes to use ie7 standards for doc. mode ?
I've switched just to check what doc. mode as standards does without any difference.
Of course browser mode is ie10.

Hey, that fixed it, I was in document Mode IE7 Standards.
Thank you!

 

[ThrashZone]

Your welcome,
I'm not sure why this forum does it to ie,
I do have download comp-view list from Microsoft automatically Unchecked in comp-view settings because I find it only confuses ie loading sites/ sifting through all of these lists
Cheers.

 

[nommy the first]

Nice one ThrashZone! I managed to reproduce the issue with a vanilla IE, and this solved it for me too


Nommy

 

[Britton30]

You might verify what is being used here on sf,
F12 browser mode and document mode,
I've noticed for some reason ie10 likes to use ie7 standards for doc. mode ?
I've switched just to check what doc. mode as standards does without any difference.
Of course browser mode is ie10.

Your welcome,
I'm not sure why this forum does it to ie,
I do have download comp-view list from Microsoft automatically Unchecked in comp-view settings because I find it only confuses ie loading sites/ sifting through all of these lists
Cheers.

What is comp-view.
Weird more now, I only clicked to quote the one message. :sarc:

 

[ThrashZone]

Alt+TB will open comp-view settings,
Where you can Uncheck the option to download comp-view lists.
Delete your browser history to remove any prior downloaded lists from Microsoft.
I often open threads and forum sections in a new tab where I've found doc. mode switches back to ie7
That is weird lol what's up with that ?
Looks like Brink might have to look into why ie7 doc. mode prevails here ?

 

[Britton30]

Alt+TB will open comp-view settings,
Where you can Uncheck the option to download comp-view lists.
Delete your browser history to remove any prior downloaded lists from Microsoft.
I often open threads and forum sections in a new tab where I've found doc. mode switches back to ie7
That is weird lol what's up with that ?
Looks like Brink might have to look into why ie7 doc. mode prevails here ?

Thanks mate, quote worked this time.

You are the IE guru.

 

[ThrashZone]

lol not yet mate,
But getting closer I suppose,
Oddly,
If I just open threads and sections without opening in a new tab the doc. mode does stick to standards,
I suppose I have to reconsider the way I click Other smiles are not available with standards
using standards/ passed validation,
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sevenforums.com%2f
Using ie7 standards/ Passed validation.
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http://www.sevenforums.com/

 

[Britton30]

Ok, now you lost me.

 

[ThrashZone]

Ok, now you lost me.

I should of stopped while I was ahead
If you notice in developer tools Validate/ HTML this forum passed with fling colors,
If you were to use validate/ HTML on say,
Internet Explorer - Microsoft Community
You would get a report of probably 32 errors,
On TechNet you wouldn't get any report at all

 

[z3r010]

You dont know the hours I've spent getting the site to validate fully lol.

FYI - The site is set in IE7 compatibility mode due to the variation of IE browsers that visit and due to all the changes IE has had over the last few years that is the only way we can get things to render the same.

The most functional browser for this site is Firefox.

 

[ThrashZone]

You dont know the hours I've spent getting the site to validate fully lol.

It shows,
A Passing HTML test was like seeing Bigfoot,
Awesome job,
Cheers.

 

[Britton30]

Oh, now I get it.

Odd thing is I was having the trouble on another build I'm working on. On my current machine IE10 is on Document Mode:IE7 Standards and works fine.

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sevenforums.com%2fbrowsers-mail%2f301360-ie10-sf-drop-downs.html#post2500908

 

[ThrashZone]

In a nutshell,
Microsoft and w3.org share a difference in opinion of HTML5.
But all of this is like watching a airliner fling/ way above my head of comprehension