Not really a hack, but rather a workaround for layout problems with IE.
Conditional

If you're an IE user you may have noticed that when you hover on a medium to large sized image, a toolbar appears in the corner of the image. It's basically useless as it accomplishes nothing that can't be done with a right-click.

Luckily, Microsoft has included a way for webmasters to disable this function.

A wrapper on top of createElement for getting around IE problems with manipulating the name attribute. Unlike most solutions for this, it tests for which method to use once when the page loads rather than every time an element is created. By Chaos of Lost Souls MUD (a text-based fantasy RPG).

Normally in CSS whichever rule is specified last takes precedence. However if you use !important after a command then this CSS command will take precedence regardless of what appears after it.

This bit of code will open up the http link in a new browser window. The link should be passed to the variable "HTML_File" as a string (as shown below).

This JScript code could be used in HTML applications (HTA) or other user-trusted web applications for saving data into files.

A wrapper on top of createElement for getting around IE problems with manipulating the name attribute. Unlike most solutions for this, it tests for which method to use once when the page loads rather than every time an element is created. By Chaos of Lost Souls MUD (a text-based fantasy RPG).

From time to time you may have reasons to override the default find method that ActiveRecord provides. In this example, we'll store a side-copy of the record attributes so that we have some basis for discovering changes to the data.

note: this will not override dynamic finders such as find_by_id

Using !important to Separate Styles From IE