Sharepoint 2007 Site Actions IE9 doesnt work

Question

We have a public facing website which is custom branded. Up until viewing the website in IE9 all standard Sharepoint functionality worked such as Site Actions.

All browsers work with it. Recently when we updated to IE9 the second level drop down has stopped working. I considered it to be a CSS related issue on our end, so I cleared the possibility of that by disabling it and it still didnt work.

I haven't managed to find a solution which works so wondered if anyone can shed a light on this problem.

Answer 1

There are some known issues with IE9 and SharePoint 2007's JavaScript, etc. You might set the IE Compatibility Mode meta tag in the master page so that it forces IE 9 to render in IE 7 or 8 mode:

i.e: < meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" / >

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288325(v=VS.85).aspx

Answer 2

If its not a JavaScript issue, I would also suggest to try to launch IE9 with no addons. If it works, then you should find the respective addon that is creating the problem and disable it.

Answer 3

You should make sure that JavaScript is enabled on your browser, Fast way to do this:

While in IE9, hit the F12 key on the keyboard You will see the Developer tools appear at the bottom of the screen. From the Disable menu, confirm that 'Script' is not ticked.

If this doesn't work, make sure there are no JavaScript errors occurring on the page.

Hope this helps.