topic Re: Shift + Draw Rectangle on the map to zoom in does not work in IE in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Shift + Draw Rectangle on the map to zoom in does not work in IE

JoanSteinbacher — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:42:04 GMT

I have downloaded the Basic Viewer Template and used it as the basis for a custom app. I have found that holding down the Shift key and drag a box on the map to zoom in does not work in IE. It works if I'm using Firefox or Chrome.

Here's the link for my app:
http://gis.tpcmaps.org/apps/staging/rezoning/

Can anyone shed light on why it's not working in IE?

Thanks,
Joan

Re: Shift + Draw Rectangle on the map to zoom in does not work in IE

JeffJacobson — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:00:05 GMT

This issue only occurs in IE 10. If you change the Browser Mode through the debugging tools to IE9 or earlier, drawing the zoom box while holding shift works correctly.

You can force IE10 into an earlier rendering engine using the X-UA-Compatible meta tag. (Firefox, Chrome, etc. will ignore this tag.)

[HTML]<html>
<head>

<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=9">
<title>My webpage</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Content goes here.</p>
</body>
</html>
[/HTML]

As for why the shift+zoom doesn't work in IE 10, I don't know. Maybe one of Esri's developers can address this.

Re: Shift + Draw Rectangle on the map to zoom in does not work in IE

JoanSteinbacher — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:19:43 GMT

Jeff -- You rock! That worked great and I never would have figured it out myself. So thanks so much for the response.

Re: Shift + Draw Rectangle on the map to zoom in does not work in IE

ScottGunn — Tue, 20 May 2014 15:01:27 GMT

Sorry to bump such an old thread, but I was a little bummed to find that this is still an issue in version 3.9 of the API.

Hopefully it will be addressed in a future release.