IE7 and dropdowns

[richcleverley]

I can't believe this so maybe someone can help.

I just installed the standalone version of IE7 RC1 yesterday to see how it handled various pages.

Just been to a site I made that has dropdowns and they don't seem to work. When ever I click on one teh popup blocker kicks in and won't display the choices (this is a select by the way not a drop down menu). Has anyone else seen this behaviour?

Have a look at

http://www.midilibre.fr

and try the selects, they just won't work (this isn't one of my sites, but it still doesn't work so it isn't my coding).

Any clues??

Richard

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Do you have an onchange event on your select element? Does the problem go away if you remove it?

I note that the HTML on the site you gave the link for is very broken, so wouldn't go using that as a reference site (for example, the select element has a "scrolling" attribute that just doesn't exist, as well as many, many other errors).

Hope this helps,
Dan

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[richcleverley]

Thanks Dan,

I have checked one of my pages that certainly doesn't have an onchange event and the same happens.

Look at

http://www.actionsites.com/owners-direct/rental.php

which is one of mine and definitely validates and see what happens. I think it might be the standalone version I have that's doing it but obviously can't be sure. I want to keep both ie6 and ie7 at the moment for testing purposes which is why I am using the standalone version. It's a shame Microsoft don't let you do proper installs of IE7 without losig IE6, especially for us developers that need to think about both versions.

Richard

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Well - I've just tried that URL on the latest version of IE 7 on Windows Vista, and the select element can be clicked on with no problem.

Perhaps you have a beta / non-final version?

Dan



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[richcleverley]

Thanks Dan,

It must be a problem with the standalone RC1 version I'm using. I know not all things do work in that version.

Oh well, looks like I'll have to install the final version when it comes out and use a standalone ie6 for testing.

Richard

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

It was released yesterday, so you can go for it now.

Dan



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[eyec]

just tried the link you gave & it worked fine with IE7 Final release on XP.

 

[richcleverley]

Thanks for having a look everyone.

I have installed IE7 final and everything seems fine, so it must have been something wrong with teh standalone version I had.

I've also installed a stadalone version of IE6 so I can test pages in both versions (as well as firefox obviously) and all seems ok.

Richard