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?

"Brian Fink" <Brian Fink@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F2B9BDC7-CC67-497C-AC1B-AC0F2A91B2F1@microsoft.com...
> 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

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" wrote:

> "Brian Fink" <Brian Fink@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F2B9BDC7-CC67-497C-AC1B-AC0F2A91B2F1@microsoft.com...
> > 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
>
>
>

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

"Brian Fink" <BrianFink@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6D92EF2B-31A3-42BD-84E6-E3BAEC53B401@microsoft.com...
> 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" wrote:
>
>> "Brian Fink" <Brian Fink@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F2B9BDC7-CC67-497C-AC1B-AC0F2A91B2F1@microsoft.com...
>> > 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
>>
>>
>>

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.

"Sami Vaaraniemi" wrote:

> 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
>
> "Brian Fink" <BrianFink@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6D92EF2B-31A3-42BD-84E6-E3BAEC53B401@microsoft.com...
> > 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" wrote:
> >
> >> "Brian Fink" <Brian Fink@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:F2B9BDC7-CC67-497C-AC1B-AC0F2A91B2F1@microsoft.com...
> >> > 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

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.

"Sami Vaaraniemi" wrote:

> 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
>
> "Brian Fink" <BrianFink@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6D92EF2B-31A3-42BD-84E6-E3BAEC53B401@microsoft.com...
> > 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" wrote:
> >
> >> "Brian Fink" <Brian Fink@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:F2B9BDC7-CC67-497C-AC1B-AC0F2A91B2F1@microsoft.com...
> >> > 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>