ASP.NET Menu and IE8 rendering white issue

re: ASP.NET Menu and IE8 rendering white issue

Kevin Daly — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:38:25 GMT

Thanks, that's very helpful.

I'd been avoiding using the ASP.NET menu control in IE8 Standards mode since I tried it in Beta 1 - back then using the Menu caused numerous JavaScript errors, so anything that can be fixed with a simple style is a vast improvement.

On the subject of compatibility - I just now remembered to check the AJAX control toolkit extenders - once again, the situation is now greatly improved (in fact everything I tried worked fine - the opposite of the situation the first time I checked). That's quite a relief.

IE8 ASP.NET Menu rendering issue

ASPInsiders — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:09:21 GMT

Since I’ve run into this issue myself, I thought I’d share a blog post that offers several possible workarounds

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Selvaganapathy — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:45:26 GMT

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!

This solution very useful to me.

I Just apply "z-index: 100;" in CSS file. Now working good.

re: ASP.NET Menu and IE8 rendering white issue

Siderite — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:00:29 GMT

I have met with the same issue and have decided to use the CSS Friendly Adapters. However, the menu is only looking acceptable in IE8 if the Compatibility View setting is set. Otherwise the menu is rendering dynamic div over the old ones.

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maya — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:13:52 GMT

Helped me so much..Thank You..

Site Compatibility and IE8

IEBlog — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:59:25 GMT

Reports of broken sites are an important part of the feedback the IE team receives from the community.

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Gaurav Mahajan — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:47:19 GMT

Thanks very much. This solved my menu problem. Keep on doing and explaining related issues.

Thanks again.

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JimmyS — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:04:57 GMT

Setting the DynamicMenuStyle z-index worked perfect. Thanks. I was giving up on using the menu control for sub menus after getting nowhere.

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Karlo — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:13:31 GMT

Dear Giorgio,

Has this issue been adressed by the ASP.Net team, now that IE8 has gone live? I am the owner of a webbased application and would have my developers spending as little as time necessary for fixing this bug (€€€!!!)

Would be great, thanks for your help!

Karlo

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Primi problemi per Internet Explorer 8

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Mark Rodrigues — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:32:48 GMT

Hi Giorgio,

Thanks for that. It was the only problem I had on my site with IE.

Just to clarify, is this actually a bug in IE8 or is this IE8 being more true to THE standard ... whatever THE standard happens to be these days :)

Thanks again.

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sandy — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:45:20 GMT

Thanks Giorgio! The DynamicMenuStyle option worked for me :)

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gisardo — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:23:28 GMT

Thanks all for the feedbacks.

@Mark: IE8 by default use the new layout engine, that has been designed to be 100% standards compliant with CSS 2.1. (See more at my MIX session, A Lap around IE8).

@Karlo: we will soon release (and distribute) an hotfix that will fix this issue.

If I look at this issue, I think this as a clear sign that we, as Microsoft, finally committed to full interoperability with web standards. We understand that this will require an initial "extra work" for our developers, but in the long term is going to be a great return of investment for the entire community.

Thanks!

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Mike Chase — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:38:52 GMT

Thanks so much I used the CSS solution and it works. Thanks again, you saved the day!

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Ivan — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:59:12 GMT

Thanks Giorgio!!!, very helpful article! :D

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miguel molina — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:58:08 GMT

Giorgio:

Buon lavoro,

Grazie millie!

re: ASP.NET Menu and IE8 rendering white issue

John H. — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:45:10 GMT

While I appreciate the workaround, I find it unacceptable that MS would release a browser that breaks applications developed using their own framework. You guys need to get it together and work with the .NET team so you don't have thousands of developers wasting their time on issues like this. My site is now viewable in every browser EXCEPT IE 8. It's ludicrous.

re: ASP.NET Menu and IE8 rendering white issue

Giorgio Sardo — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:09:13 GMT

Hi John,

if we look at what we did back in the past, moving from IE5 to IE6 to IE7...is exactly what you say: "Releasing a new product that don't break any previous application". Or, in other words, support legacy code.

With IE8 we took a different direction: being standards compliant by default. We did *a lot* of testing either with Microsoft applications and public websites. Unfortunately we are aware of a few things (like this) that could break, but:

1) We built an (IMHO) amazing compatibility support in IE8, that allows you to opt-in for the IE7 rendering engine. This is something that no other browser has ever done. Other browsers will just pretend you to update all of your code, if they do some breaking change....

2) We are releasing free tooling support, to help investigate and make sure website standard compliant.

We are aware that this will require some extra work from your side. At the same time, as we move forward, having IE8 being standards compliant will make your future website development experience much easier, thus will reduce development costs...

As I've written previously in this post we will release an hotfix for ASP.NET (note, not for IE...) that will fix this issue. The hotfix will also be included in future SP versions and finally in the next ASP.Net/OS releases.

Please keep on reporting your issues and feedbacks; our final goal is to make the developer community code faster across browsers and platforms ;)

Thanks,

Giorgio

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Kassian — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:09:54 GMT

Hi Giorgio,

I tried all fixes and non worked, my menue is still not visible at all (asp:Menu VS 2005). No white square or anything. In IE 7 or FF it works just fine.

Any ideas?

Thanks for the help.

Kassian

re: ASP.NET Menu and IE8 rendering white issue

Karlo — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:37:02 GMT

Ciao Giorgio,

Was the hotfix on ASP.net included in the update that came through not last night, but the night before? (European time). Servers went down, but anyway :-)

Or is it still pending?

Great to have a direct line with you in this way!

Mille grazie!

Karlo

re: ASP.NET Menu and IE8 rendering white issue

gisardo — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:58:47 GMT

Hotfix are available for download here:

http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2009/03/23/asp-menu-fix-for-ie8-problem-available.aspx

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hunzonian — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:58:56 GMT

Hi, Thank you so much for this info! I added the IE8 css fix to my master pages/css file and it works without flaw.

Thanks!

hunzonian

Internet Explorer 8 and ASP:Menu Control

Ossa Tech Blog — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:25:23 GMT

Internet Explorer 8 and ASP:Menu Control

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Sherlock Ossa — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:30:53 GMT

Giorgio, thanks so much for the post. I added the DynamicMenuStyle tonight in my master pages and it worked like a charm. I noticed this as a problem in the beta but thought it would be fixed before IE8 went live.

Thanks!

Sherlock Ossa

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gisardo — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:38:34 GMT

Thanks Shelock. In fact the ASP.Net team did a great job releasing the hotfix one week before IE8 went RTW. :-)

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peter plimpton — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:43:37 GMT

I was able to fix the problem with solution number 1 (Overriding the z-index property). Thanks for the example. I'm glad my menus were in master pages!

I remember having to fix the Safari problem with a addition to the AppBrowsers folder. The CSS Friendly Adaptor seems like a similar fix but you have to add the dll. Are people using this solution for other problems as well?

Linkblog: ASP.NET Menu IE8 alatt

Balássy György (MSDNKK) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:09:10 GMT

Ha a standard ASP.NET Menu vezérlőnek használjuk a dinamikusan kinyíló funkcióit, akkor készüljünk fel

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IE8 Guy — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:23:01 GMT

Wow, thanks same me bunch of time

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TI Dev — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:14:21 GMT

Solution no. 1 works for me on my Windows server 2003 machine but does not work on my Windows Server 2003 R2 Machine.

Solution No. 3 worked just fine for me on both the machines.

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Karlo — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:02:36 GMT

Ciao Giorgio,

My developers have run the ASP.hotfix in my webapplication. Navigation works fine now in IE8 under XP, however in Vista it still doesn't work (without comptability-status). It appears that the release of SP2 for Vista and another patch have to be run before it all functions well under Vista. Is this correct? In that case: do you know when the official release of SP2 for Vista is planned?

Mille grazie!

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wyatt — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:56:44 GMT

I just installed IE 8 this morning. One of the first things I noticed was that the page formatting now matched closely to my other browser. I check format in both browsers as I develop. Next I noticed the menu issue with the empty white space. I found the fix quickly on this block and added the dynamic menu css and z-index. It was a fast solution. I like working with standards, too.

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Giorgio — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:02:32 GMT

Great! Thanks wyatt for your feedback.

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Sanjit — Sat, 30 May 2009 10:08:59 GMT

Helped me so much..Thank You..

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Morten — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:02:51 GMT

Thanks a million - the #1 solution did it for me. However - in general, I have an issue with asp:menu and the Safari browser. It looks weird. Do you have a solution?

re: ASP.NET Menu and IE8 rendering white issue

Giorgio Sardo — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:57:32 GMT

Morten: what is the issue? I would suggest to check this post:

http://forums.asp.net/t/941229.aspx

Giorgio

re: ASP.NET Menu and IE8 rendering white issue

Ginters — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:06:48 GMT

Nice job!

Boy am I getting tired or .NET controls and web browsers - the difference between 6 and 8 is large (just see png display).

Cheers

John

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Joe — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:19:56 GMT

Thanks! I had a client that complained about my menus not appearing on IE8. I googled for "check if browser is ie8 asp.net", thinking that I would have to write some browser-specific code. Guess which page was the very first on the list. Yep, this one!

This is a MUCH simpler fix! Thank you so much.

Note that it does have to be in the <DynamicMenuStyle/> tag and not the <DynamicMenuItemStyle/> tag.

Again, Thanks with a capital T! :)

Joe

P.S. I agree, John. The difference between 6 and 8 is HUGE, and yet many people still use 6, and people are now using 8. How to write code that suits them both? :)

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Chandralekha — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:34:26 GMT

Ciao Giorgio

Good Job!!

Thank u very much, i used cssclass in my master page

working fine.

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Kylie Rasmussen — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:27:56 GMT

Why does the "z-index = 100;" fix the problem? Thanks for the help!

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Jesse — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:05:08 GMT

The Z-index and the css fix did nothing for me...but the meta tag cleared the whole thing right up. Thanks!!

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Dan-O — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:29:26 GMT

Thanks! The z-index change did the trick for me.

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Riza — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:01:40 GMT

Used the meta tag before the style sheet and it work. None of the other fixes worked for me.

Will the hotfix solve the problem if I installed it to the IIS server machine? Or I have to install it to all the clients? Or Both?

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gisardo — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:35:01 GMT

@Riza: you can install the hotfix only on the IIS Server Machine (since the rendering of the control is done on the server-side).

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Priti — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:41:18 GMT

It's really helpful. Keep it up!!!

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stecolna — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:27:27 GMT

Thanks a lot!!!

You suggestion has solved a bug in a web site I've developed.

Best regards

Stefano Colnaghi

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Mike — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:35:31 GMT

Thank you! This was so helpful!

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Vishal Nigam — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:22:05 GMT

A great help for a problem which otherwise was looking major. You solution made it minor.

Thanks again.

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Yogesh — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:01:29 GMT

Thank you very much. 'z-index' helped me to resolved the IE8 issue.

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Giorgio Sardo — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:10:20 GMT

Priti, Stefano, Mike, Vishal, Yogesh: thanks for your feedback, I'm glad it helped!

-Giorgio

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nada — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:04:36 GMT

Thank you so much IE8Fix solve the problem

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bob singh — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:54:40 GMT

Cheers - described in a simple way so that even i could understand it

nice one

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nate — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:47:32 GMT

Overriding the z-index property worked for me. Thanks so much!

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tiffany — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:39:03 GMT

Thanks very much. This solved my menu problem. Keep on doing and explaining related issues.

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Rasim Çelik — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:53:21 GMT

Thank you so much! this was so helpfull. (from Turkey)

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Rodney Kendall — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:54:08 GMT

YOU ARE AWESOME! It is very difficult to find this resolution, until IE8 is added to the search criteria. Once it is there, this solution is a life saver!

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John Thompson — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:16:44 GMT

Your a life saver. Its just annoying (though predictable) that Microsoft couldn't read the standards documents in the first place.

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Minal Shroff — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:17:46 GMT

I included the meta tag in all my aspx pages..works like a charm...thank you so much...

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Tevaganthan — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:57:36 GMT

Thanks a lot."Add the IE7 META tag to the project" method is solved my menu problem on IE8 browser.

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Des Buckley — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:52:22 GMT

Thank you so much. White space now banished thanks to your z-index patch.

I can get on with life...

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rob — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:08:35 GMT

i tried the z index style fix but still no change in IE8..i use the asp menu in a master page,..what should be checked?

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Salvo Rapisarda — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:11:52 GMT

Wow!

I Just apply "z-index: 100;" in CSS file. Now working good.

Good solution! I like it!!!

In Italian: Grandeeeee!!! ^_^

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Zorro — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:54:49 GMT

Man, you saved my ass. This was really such an awesome solution.

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Howard — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:09:40 GMT

I agree with Selvaganapathy.

The z-order fix makes some sense

and works like a charm!

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vidigo — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:26:45 GMT

Thank you. Solution 2 works perfect.

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Sebastián — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:16:42 GMT

Thanks a lot. I used a combination of the solutions 1 and 3. 1 for fix ASP Menu and 3 for hide compability view button at IE8.

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Pakaraima — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:30:14 GMT

Thanks for this fix. This problem is still posted as an outstanding problem on other sites. I stumbled on this site when it was obvious that Firefox and Chrome did not exhibit similar symptoms. After that I was able to formulate a query that pointed me to this site.

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gummadi sri ramulu — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:15:23 GMT

i tried the same way what you suggested but when i done the 3rd step ie adding CSSFriendlyAdapters.browser

it is giving error

so please suggest me for further to rectify that fix

thanks for your suggestion

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incilay — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:43:25 GMT

Thank you for solution. My problem is solved.

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Mr. D — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:57:11 GMT

gr8! It fixed up my issue. Thank u for the solution.

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Shavkat — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:53:05 GMT

Thanks a lot, very helpful! The IE7 META tag worked for me, although overriding z-index property didn't work for some reasons.

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Jesse L — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:35:01 GMT

Thank you! z-index worked perfectly.

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Venkat — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:53:20 GMT

This method Useful for my project. But this same problem Occur when I use Mozilla Firefox3.5.1 browser . Can u tell me any Solution?

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NinjaCross — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:02:41 GMT

The trick works like a charm, thanks !

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Davide — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:34:21 GMT

Proprio la soluzione che cercavo da settimane.

Neanche su asp.net c'era una soluzione.

Ma se è un comportamento normale, come mai VWD2008 non lo risolve automaticamente?

La soluzione n° 1 ha funzionato dappertutto, oltretutto essendo menu in default.master, con una modifica si risolve per l'intero portale.

Ciao

grazie Giorgio.

Just the solution I was searching for!

asp.net doesn't propose any solution to this issue.

However, if this functionality is normal, why VWD2008 doesn't solve the problem by itself?

Solution n 1 worked everywhere, and because menu are on default.master, one modify solve the problem of the web site.

Bye

Thanks Giorgio.

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srinu — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:10:27 GMT

hi nice solution,i got solution to my problem to follow

second technique (Add the IE7 META tag to the project)..

thanks a lot

regards

srinu ganaparthi

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saif ur rehman — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:08:40 GMT

thanks,

we are facing this problem for the last many days,

but this article help me very much to solve the

problem..

bundle of thanks............

saif (Islamabad, Pakistan )