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title: IE bugs
category: HTML
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### IE8: 'change' event doesn't always fire

Not for checkboxes, radios, multi-select lists. Use the `click` handler instead.

 * [(1)](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8005442/checkbox-change-event-works-when-click-the-label-in-ie8-ie7)

### IE8: clicking label with input inside doesn't focus the input

 * [(1)](http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/MSIE7Bugs/LabelForWithImage.html)

### IE8: an element's 'opacity' value isn't propogated to its positioned descendants

 * [test case](http://jhop.me/tests/bugs/ie8/opacity_positioned.html)

### Lnks

 * [jhop.me](http://jhop.me/ie8-bugs)
 * [charlescooke.me.uk](http://www.charlescooke.me.uk/web/lab_notes/bugs/index.html)