# Autocompleters and Sortables do not function in IE6 **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 22, 2008, 5:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/autocompleters-and-sortables-do-not-function-in-ie6/138402 "2008-05-22T17:13:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Christopher\_Hazlett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/b5ac83/32.png) [@Christopher\_Hazlett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Christopher_Hazlett)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 5:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/autocompleters-and-sortables-do-not-function-in-ie6/138402/1 "2008-05-22T17:13:19Z")
I have two issues that I hope someone else has encountered and has a solution for. First: I have several autocompleters on my site, and they function as expected in Firefox, Opera, IE7, but when I use them in IE6, I get no javascript errors for my local autocompleters, and all ajax autocompleters functions are firing as expected and returning the correct search results. The only problem, IE6 does not display the autocompleter results. I’ve tried any myriad of css combinations to correct the issue, but to no avail. Has anyone encountered this same issue before and how did you overcome it? Second: I have a couple of sortable elements. They are showing up, but they are displaying all over the place (only in IE6). I have again tried changing the CSS in a number of ways, but to no avail. Has anyone encountered layout difficulties in IE 6 with the sortable functions. I know these things work…I’ve seen them work with my own eyes in IE6, but for some reason, they won’t on my site. Any help would be appreciated. -Chris ---
**Author:** ![Christopher\_Hazlett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/b5ac83/32.png) [@Christopher\_Hazlett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Christopher_Hazlett)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/autocompleters-and-sortables-do-not-function-in-ie6/138402/2 "2008-05-22T17:26:35Z")
can’t help you with your specific problems, but in similar situations it helped to run the page through a validator, since ie6 responds nasty on missing close tags and other invalid html or javascript. ---
**Author:** ![Christopher\_Hazlett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/b5ac83/32.png) [@Christopher\_Hazlett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Christopher_Hazlett)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/autocompleters-and-sortables-do-not-function-in-ie6/138402/3 "2008-05-22T19:17:49Z")
Thanks. Ran it through a validator which actually caught a few things, but to no avail. The elements still won’t display. I can’t figure out why. I had forgotten how much IE6 sucks until these errors reared it’s head. -Chris On May 22, 11:26 am, Thorsten M. \ **Author:** ![Christopher\_Hazlett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/b5ac83/32.png) [@Christopher\_Hazlett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Christopher_Hazlett)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/autocompleters-and-sortables-do-not-function-in-ie6/138402/4 "2008-05-22T20:30:16Z") I’ve declared the doc type (and have tried several different types for the pages) but that doesn’t seem to be affecting the functioning. Can you be a little more specific? ---
**Author:** ![Christopher\_Hazlett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/b5ac83/32.png) [@Christopher\_Hazlett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Christopher_Hazlett)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/autocompleters-and-sortables-do-not-function-in-ie6/138402/5 "2008-05-22T19:40:15Z")
Do you have a proper HTML declaration? Ajaxy stuff doesn’t work in IE6 if it is in quirks mode.