How to check font-size in IE6+ - testing

I am wondering is there any way we can test the font size/color of a webpage in IE6+. I think it is not possible by checking the css class, as some other style may overwrite the styles of the class which has been assinged to that text.
Actually I want to know the browser assigned font-size to the text of the page, as we can do it in firebug on firefox.
Any help would be appreciated.

Of course you can. If you turn on developer tools - it's in every IE6.

Not sure but I think you can try the only famous web developer toolbar for IE:
Internet Explorer Web Developer Toolbar

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Drop Down Form for Date is Deformed

I use sharepoint 2010 and I get a deformed pop up menu for Date selection. Nothing fancy here. Just a simple form to enter some data with date.
Have you seen this before? I get the same effect in Chrome/Firefox latest versions.
Thank you in advance
This is a problem with your SharePoint site's CSS (or possibly with JavaScript that affects the CSS).
That big image is a spritesheet; CSS is supposed to crop the visible region so that you only see the specific sprites that are relevant to the current control.
You can pull up the developer tools with F12 and inspect the image element and its containers to see what CSS is currently applied, as well as check for any errors in the JavaScript console.
Clear your browsers cache and reload page. Delete the datetime column and create a new.

Is it possible to use a textarea for a Safari extension settings?

I've made a couple small Safari extensions. For one of them, I would like to collect a set of user-entered strings (e.g., URLs or URL patterns) using a textarea in the settings screen. The only setting types offered in the documentation are one line text, check box, slider, select lists, and radio buttons. I could use a one line text field as an ugly workaround, but I'm hoping there's a better option. I've googled for hints and looked through Safari extensions in GitHub, but haven't found an example of anyone doing this yet.
Does anyone have an example of how to use a textarea for a Safari extensions setting? Is there an undocumented feature I've not been able to find? Or is there a way to trigger a custom popup window from the settings?
Thanks for any tips.
No, there is no way to build a more complex UI inside the settings dialog. What extensions typically do is add a button (checkbox, even if it's not quite the correct element) in the settings page which then launches a separate Safari page which contains the full settings UI, written in HTML.
For an example of this, install uBlock and take a look at how it launches its setting UI.

Is there an AppBar button style that means "Open in Web Browser"?

Is there an AppBar button style that means "Open in Web Browser"?
This seems like a pretty common scenario, so maybe there's already a Microsoft style for it. Otherwise I guess I'll have to roll my own.
In lieu of a perfect match, I think the best is new window:
I think it conveys what you are wanting to say here.
It's U+E17C in Segoe UI Symbol.
You can also find it in Common/StandardStyles.xaml as NewWindowAppBarButtonStyle
The Modern UI Icons library has several icons that could be used. It contains a generic browser icon, as well as one for Chrome and IE.
I discovered this in a helpful Tim Heuer blog post about using font icons in Windows 8.1.

navigating internet page

I want to write code to log onto an Internet account and also click buttons to navigate to do different things such as watch for something to change. for example I would like
log on to account
click to navigate
while(until I say to stop)
watch for changes
You may look at
http://watij.com/
For automated website tests you can use Selenium.
You might not need to write code - if you use FireFox, perhaps try the iMacros addon?
You've not said what language you want to write this in -- for .NET there's http://watin.org/

Show webpage with no URL bar, navigation bar, etc

I'm working on a vb.net web application and want to make it to where when someone puts in a url into the browser or when someone clicks on a shortcut, a new browser window is opened but there is no back or forward, no refresh, no navigation bar, etc. Does anyone know how to do this or if it's even possible? I just want the browser shell essentially. Thanks.
I would advice against this - the browser is the users domain, don't mess with it. Are there any particular reasons for your choice of functionality?
Any ways to make this possible will be based on Javascript, and this can always be disabled by the user.
You can do this in javascript code behind cannot open new browser windows. Take a look here.
you can do this with javascript using the window.open() method.