Especially lovely is this tidbit about the update that did this to IE on its Security Update page:

When this security bulletin was issued, had this vulnerability been publicly disclosed?
No. Microsoft received information about this vulnerability through responsible disclosure.

When this security bulletin was issued, had Microsoft received any reports that this vulnerability was being exploited?
No. Microsoft had not received any information to indicate that this vulnerability had been publicly used to attack customers and had not seen any examples of proof of concept code published when this security bulletin was originally issued.

Unreal. Thanks again, Microsoft.

“position:relative”

and I singled out that two elements within this container were causing the crash, and they both had “float:right” applied to them. By setting “float:none” + “display:block” to these in an IE6-specific stylesheet fixed the crash.

I’m surprised this bug is over 4 years old, and it’s such a catastrophic one at that, you would expect to have at least been aware of it before… Never have I ever seen a CSS statement cause the rendering engine to crash the browser. Until this week. I suppose in retrospect, I shouldn’t have been surprised – this is Internet Explorer we’re dealing with, after all.

In the end set it to clear:left then clear:both which both solved the problem! Obviously not much help to most people but in my case it was an exceptable solution.

Currently running XP SP3 on VMware Fusion, also found the problem in IETester which also uses the IE6 render engine.

div.hdr{
width:100%;
display: inline;
float:left;
background-image:url(/images/background.gif);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
}

Had a similar IE problem. Narrowed it down to this CSS line:

#plants ul.goesWell a {display:block; float:left;}

The odd thing is I am trying to get a page into it”s print view visual state so if I use print.css as the screen css:

media=”screen,projection”

then all is fine, but when I go to Print Preview with this css:

media=”print”

it crashes the browser consistently each time.

As I skimmed through the comments, I saw #22 from James Davies and worked a treat, thanks James! The new line is:

#plants ul.goesWell a {display:block; float:left; position:relative;}

IE: sigh!
Cheers everyone.
Mag

But now: I checked against it and inserted the float: left; back again. Restarted IE, cleard cache (and cookies), and the two pages i tested before are still running fine, but on the 3rd page, IE crashes.

Then I deleted that float: left;, reloaded the 3rd page, it works. Re-inserted float: left; and all pages work fine. Internet Explorer seems to have a mind besides its cache. I wonder where it might be.

What the … is wrong here?

Greetings from Einbeck, Germany,
Martin

.test
{
width: 31.8em;
margin: 0 8.7em 0 2.4em;
float:left;
}

crashed the IE 6..
but after reading here we changed it to

.test
{
float:left;
display:inline;
width: 31.8em;
margin: 0 8.7em 0 2.4em;
}

and everything worked fine.. strange but nice..

We solved the problem. We removed the float element from the CSS.
Then i was just checking for articles on CSS making IE crash n i came across this. This is a too good article.

I tried to solve the problem and that process i literally crashed IE more than 100 times .
We solved the problem.
But i wondered why only with IE as MoZI didnt give the problem with same CSS? There is some problem with IE’s rendering Engine as ur saying.

Thanks n regards

satish Gaudo.