While working with some dynamically created textarea tags, I noticed some odd behavior in Internet Explorer.  I was trying to get a textarea tag to fit to the height of its content, while allowing a horizontal scrollbar for when a word (or url) is too long for the available width. Here is the function I came up with:function ...

I’ve recently been building an ActiveX Control in .NET 2.0 and thought I would share some of the problems I’ve run into, as well as their solutions.  I hope that in reading this you can avoid a few of the timesinks I fell into.    Safe for Scripting By default, ActiveX controls are not marked as safe for scripting.  ...

While testing our components and demos in the latest Internet Explorer 8 release (RC1), I found that a particular combination of nesting percentage based elements, caused an IFrame that we use to size to the default height, rather than filling the parent element. The problem seems to only manifest when a div tag that uses both absolute based ...

Recently I was tasked with creating a spiffy demo for our new AJAX Annotations control and I ran across an interesting problem. For reference, I am creating a demo that looks and behaves much like the AJAX Multipage Tiff Demo, with all the transparent PNG goodness that we can now take advantage of in IE7. Since the default doctype in VS ...

The biggest annoyance with asynchronous postbacks through an iframe is probably the infamous ''click'' noises that Internet Explorer makes when you load a page.  I've turned sounds for that event off (in the sounds section of the control panel) a long time ago, and it's easy to forget about it once it's gone. It turns out that we're not ...

There have been countless times where I have made user interfaces that were easily customizable using style sheets.  Usually the graphics were generic enough so that you could change the colors without making it look too bad.  Then there are the interfaces with the drop shadows, overlays, and other semi-transparent areas which would ...