Weird IE glitch

trdunsworth

I am using this for a phone directory on an intranet inside our school district. In FF, Chrome, and Safari, it looks and works beautifully. However, in IE, the table works, but the pagination doesn't advance.

I have it set to display full on the bottom and in IE7 and IE8, the numbers never advance. I only get pages 1 through 5 displayed as choices. I can still reach pages 6 and beyond, but the pagination doesn't advance.

Curious if anyone has seen this and/or knows a way to correct it.

Thanks,

Tony

allan

Hi Tony,

Sounds very odd. Could you try my alternative paging demo ( http://datatables.net/examples/example_alt_pagination.html ) in your browsers and see if that works (it does for me here). If it does, then I suspect that you are just running into a CSS issue with elements overlapping and "stealing" events. You could use the IE developer tools to confirm if this is the case.

Regards,
Allan

trdunsworth

That would be the issue. Now to go track it down, nail it in place, and tell it and IE to behave themselves.... :)

Thanks for the help

allan

Great stuff. Make use you use extra long nails :-)

Regards,
Allan

trdunsworth

You want weird? I compared the files between your example and my code. I found two lines which were different. I added two to move the pagination over to the right side of the table and still get a look I wanted. I commented them out and re-loaded the page. Nothing changed, so I put them back in and the blessed thing works perfectly now.

I don't get it, but it works in IE and in FF now, so I'm nailing it in place.

I'm also experimenting with this code in an HTML 5 version. Still working glitches out, but nothing related to this code right now that I can see.....

allan

Hah! Amazing... With most things I try to pin down exactly what has gone wrong and why. The exception to my rule with working with IE6 and 7. If it works - then it's good enough!

Good luck - and do should if you find anything in DataTables incompatible with HTML 5 (although there really shouldn't be).

Regards,
Allan