Topic: IE6/Win Bug (Page 1 of 1)

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Viewing this with IE6 on Windows 98 when you roll over the text resizing buttons in the sidebar the browser consistently crashes. I was wondering if people can reproduce this problem and if anyone can see mistakes in the XHTML or CSS (both of which are valid). Thanks a lot...

Cool, you found another way to reliably crash IE! You should make a minimal page that replicates the bug (take what you've got and strip out unnecessary bits until you get the smallest page that still causes the error). This will simultaneously help you to find a workaround (you'll see what changes make the error go away), and provide you with a browser bug demonstration which other people will probably be interested in.

I was able to crash it in IE6. I'll check the source.

When I commented the following out in your CSS, the problem went away...

/* #leftcolumn div a:hover {
color: #eee;
text-decoration: none;
background: #c84444;
} */

Maybe within IE the hover identifier was fighting with your id="ninety", id="oneofive" identifiers.

Ok, I've looked as much as I'm going to tonight, and have narrowed it down to this: http://www.parazone.net/buggy.html http://www.parazone.net/buggy.css
Which still seems to crash in the same way.

I think I've resolved the problem now with a little tinkering. It seemed to be something to do with float, and if the little Ts wrapped to the next line the browswer crashed when you moused over them. So the trick was to make sure they didn't wrap to the next line. Adding float:left to the hover state of the anchors as well as the anchors also seemed to help. I'll leave buggy.html on the server for curiosity.