jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid - Topic: UI quirk in IE

jakemonO on UI quirk in IE

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:14:44 +0300

tony said:

Hello,

This resolve the problem just in your particular case. Doing this in the demo prevent always key navigation.

Please check your CSS.

Kind Regards

Tony

the problem apperas to be related to the DOCTYPE declaration. If I don't have it on my page, weirdness ensues as documented her and also with jsTree. Odd. See

jakemonO on UI quirk in IE

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:12:43 +0300

I combed the CSS for 2 days and was unable to find the root cause of the quirk. All the CSS generated by the errant span is inline, what more can I do? (this isn't a complaint, it's a serious request for help/assistance/advice)

tony on UI quirk in IE

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 19:47:15 +0300

Hello,

This resolve the problem just in your particular case. Doing this in the demo prevent always key navigation.

Please check your CSS.

Kind Regards

Tony

jakemonO on UI quirk in IE

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:25:03 +0300

SOLUTION (?)

I don't know why the visual bug manifestes itself selectively on certain pages in IE but not others, but if I change line 349 in grid.celledit.js to

var selection = $(""),i, kdir;

The problem goes away. The corresponding place in the compressed file is in line 356.

Is there any unintended side effect that I need to be concerned with? Should this be perhaps a patch for anyone else who may have experienced this problem?

jakemonO on UI quirk in IE

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:46:47 +0300

I'm not sure if this a bug or something I'm doing wrong, but in some circumstances in IE8, when selecting a row in the grid, the grid "hops" down a little and I get a whitespace line above the TH row in the grid. I cannot inspect select or otherwise mark this phenomena in IE to determine where exactly in the DOM it comes from. I did notice a tiny little mark appearing in the upper left corner of the grid (right where the rounded edge is in Firefox) under the same circumstances and suspected that the two behaviors were linked to the same underlying cause, just manifesting differently in the two browsers.

For the record, the IE problem is the only one I'm concerned about both because it's clearly a noticeable quirk and because the solution I'm building will run primarily in IE.

Using Firefox, I was able to track the stray pixel to a new element being inserted as the first child of "_gview":

I don't know what this element is or does, but I do know that if I destroy it the quirk dissapears. I use $('#_kn').parent().remove() to to the dirty deed because there's no way for me to query for the parent element (hence searching for its child and then jQuerying the parent) Can someone tell me what the purpose of this span is? Can I prevent it from coming up in the first place? Can I prevent it from displaying at all using a preventative measure such as a CSS rule (I don't see how if there's no tag or class…) Also, dor some reason this behavior is not consistent and I have not been able to create a new page that exhibits it, although my existing page always consistently exhibits this visual quirk.

I'm using jqGrid 3.7.2
jQueryUI 1.8.2
jQuery1.4

Many thanks in adv. for any insight into this issue