Is this a known bug?

[Guest]

Internet Explorer 6 on XP crashed on some content in one of my web pages.
Download and save this file and view the source in a text viewer:
http://www.freewebs.com/desertowl/listtest.html
I've traced the problem to these triggers:
- Containing element with background
- :first-letter with margin or padding
- :first-letter in a context selector
- Element with :first-letter has a child beginning at first or second letter
of element
- Element has no layout, or container has no layout.
Does anyone know about this bug?

 

[Sami Vaaraniemi]

Internet Explorer 6 on XP crashed on some content in one of my web pages.
Download and save this file and view the source in a text viewer:
http://www.freewebs.com/desertowl/listtest.html
I've traced the problem to these triggers:
- Containing element with background
- :first-letter with margin or padding
- :first-letter in a context selector
- Element with :first-letter has a child beginning at first or second
letter
of element
- Element has no layout, or container has no layout.
Does anyone know about this bug?

Crashes for me too (fully patched IE 6 on XP SP2).

IE 6 has a number of similar style sheet related issues if the web page is
in standards mode. Another one that crashes IE 6 is demonstrated in
http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/tests/ie-freeze.html (NOTE: clicking on this
link is likely to freeze or crash IE!).

One would hope that these problems are fixed when IE 7 comes out, but last I
tried it with IE 7 beta, it still crashes.

Regards,
Sami

 

[Guest]

Putting layout on the element with the background is a temporary fix:

zoom: 1; /*for example*/

This appears to stabilize the situation, and the problem silently dies.

 

[Sami Vaaraniemi]

Almost, but not quite. With the zoom attribute it won't crash while
rendering the page, but try selecting a row of text with the mouse. Still
crashes for me.

Regards,
Sami

 

[Guest]

Where did you put the zoom: property? This page:
http://www.freewebs.com/desertowl/listlayout.html
works even with mouse highlight, at least on Windows 2000. Try it with 7 and
see if it crashes. The zoom is on the list itself, but I also tried putting
it on the containing div and on just the :first-letter and no crash.

 

[Guest]

You're right. When I selected an element not wrapped in a nested tag, the
browser did not crash, but the moment I clicked on an element with a tag
inside it such as I had in my li tags, down the browser went! So how do I
sheild it from crashing, and how do I go about reporting this bug to
Microsoft? This is a very unstable situation.