dude perhaps the only good valid solution that microsoft has given is the ie developer toolbar
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&displaylang=en its obviously not firebug, but its a good try, no on the fly css editing, but you get this cool inspect tool just like the one firebug has plus the dom tree inspector which is always good to have, tons of other stuff i dont really use but its a good solution in my opinion On Apr 20, 7:42 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I stumble towards discovery of jQuery and all things Javascript, I > frequently get knocked down by IE ;) It throws fatal errors far more > often than Firefox (whose debugger I can understand) but IE's debug > option invariably points to an 'error' in the jQuery core. I assume > that's not the *real* error; just the point in the main script at > which *my* script caused a fault. > > Please could someone point me towards a better debugger for ie? > I should emphasise that I really am floundering in the dark here. > Ideally, I need something dead simple. I can't even use Firebug > properly! > > Any & all advice much appreciated, as ever :) > Cherry.