3.2.0

Combo box lists not displaying properly in IE only

Hello, I've just purchased a developer license after trying out AW for a while now, and I'll say this is a great product you've got here.

I have run into a problem, however: I'm trying to use it to create a grid that includes combo boxes (i use both AW.UI.Combo for my 1-time combos, and also AW.Templates.Combo for my repeating combos in various places). I'm making the combo box popups with AW.UI.List and so on as I've seen several examples doing so.

Everything looks beautiful in Firefox, and works as I expect, but in IE the lists for the combo boxes all seem to cut off to the bottom and the right after the items run out.

For example, I have a 3-item combo-box; the list popup is bigger (vertically & horizontally) than the 3-items take up, and in Firefox it extends for a bit past the items and is blank, with a border around it, and it looks fine. In IE 8, however, it extends down as far as the 3 items, and over to the right only as far as the 3 items take up, then abruptly cuts off, without the border showing up, as though the background of the list box is transparent when there is not text sitting on it.

Any suggestions as to what might be happening or how to fix it?
Todd
December 31,
Do you assign any width/height to the body tag? Could you post an example to reproduce this issue?
Alex (ActiveWidgets)
January 4,
I have found (by chance) that if your browser setting under Tools / General / Browser History / Settings / Temporary internet files is NOT set to automatically the popup on combo boxes is either cut off or does not display at all. Not sure if it matters but the sites with this problem are httpS.

Erik Dobrie
January 4,
Just wanted to post and let you know this was resolved.

The problem was actually unrelated to ActiveWidgets, it was a reset css stylesheet that was added to the page; it was supposed to help standardize the initial styles in IE and FF, so that the other parts of the page wouldn't need browser-specific checks.

Upon disabling that stylesheet, the combo boxes showed up correctly in both IE & FF and haven't been a problem since.
Todd
January 14,

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