Rendering Engine Does Not Display All Text on a Page

[Guest]

On several web servers, I have an application that periodically generates web pages showing web access statistics. Both cascading stylesheets and inline styles are used on the page. The pages display correctly when accessed using Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, and versions of Internet Explorer prior to 6.0

There are two cascading stylesheets used on the web pages. A default facility-wide cascading style sheet used by all web servers and a second cascading style sheet used explicitly for the generated pages. In addition, there are inline styles like the following used

<span style="font-weight: bold;"
Summary Period: Last 12 Months<br
Generated 10-Apr-2004 09:01 EDT<br></span><div><hr

When viewed with Internet Explorer 6.0 only the top half of the "Summary" line will be displayed by the rendering engine. The bottom half of this line and the second line will not be displayed. If you refresh the page in an attempt to have the missing text displayed, The <h1>...</h1> and <h2>...</h2> titles that appear above the <span> will disappear

If the user knows that data is not being displayed and highlights the area where the text should be, the text will then be rendered in the correct font, color, and font-weight

What gets more interesting under Windows XP is that if you slide another window immediately over the text it will disappear when the window is moved away. However, if you slide a third window over the top of the second window and the Internet Explorer window the text will reappear

This erasure of text has been demonstrated to me by colleagues using other web pages. The common elements are the use of Internet Eplorer 6.0 with SP1 installed and Windows XP

Merton Campbell Crocket

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

I have an application that periodically generates web pages showing

web access statistics.

Excel? There were some discussions about this.
The only workaround that I am aware of is to use View, Text Size (Alt-V,x)
Switching sizes and switching back worked then.

<
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...1c1c2d3$7c62eaf0$a5e62ecf@tkmsftngxa07#link20 >

(Google Groups search for
insubject:excel size group:microsoft.*.ie6.browser
)

Hmm... there may be some finger-pointing going on here...


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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On several web servers, I have an application that periodically generates web pages showing web access statistics. Both cascading

stylesheets and inline styles are used on the page. The pages display correctly when accessed using Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, and
versions of Internet Explorer prior to 6.0.

There are two cascading stylesheets used on the web pages. A default facility-wide cascading style sheet used by all web servers

and a second cascading style sheet used explicitly for the generated pages. In addition, there are inline styles like the following
used.

<span style="font-weight: bold;">
Summary Period: Last 12 Months<br>
Generated 10-Apr-2004 09:01 EDT<br></span><div><hr>

When viewed with Internet Explorer 6.0 only the top half of the "Summary" line will be displayed by the rendering engine. The

bottom half of this line and the second line will not be displayed. If you refresh the page in an attempt to have the missing text

If the user knows that data is not being displayed and highlights the area where the text should be, the text will then be

rendered in the correct font, color, and font-weight.

What gets more interesting under Windows XP is that if you slide another window immediately over the text it will disappear when

the window is moved away. However, if you slide a third window over the top of the second window and the Internet Explorer window
the text will reappear.

This erasure of text has been demonstrated to me by colleagues using other web pages. The common elements are the use of Internet

Eplorer 6.0 with SP1 installed and Windows XP.

 

[Merton Campbell Crockett]

No, the application is not Excel. It is Webalyzer that I
have modified to use cascading sytlesheets to reduce the
volume of data that needed to be downloaded.

The sites that one can "erase" use cascading stylesheets
as, I suspect, does Excel. Changing the text size is not a
viable solution as it requires the user to know that there
is data that is not being displayed which is not always the
case.

This is a bug in Windows/Internet Explorer. It would be
nice to have Microsoft correct the problem or publish an
article on what one can do to avoid triggering the bug.

Merton Campbell Crockett

-----Original Message-----

Excel? There were some discussions about this.
The only workaround that I am aware of is to use View, Text Size (Alt-V,x)
Switching sizes and switching back worked then.

<
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...1c1c2d3$7c62eaf0$a5e62ecf@tkmsftngxa07#link20


(Google Groups search for
insubject:excel size group:microsoft.*.ie6.browser
)

Hmm... there may be some finger-pointing going on here...


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle

periodically generates web pages showing web access
statistics. Both cascading

stylesheets and inline styles are used on the page. The

pages display correctly when accessed using Netscape,
Mozilla, Opera, and

versions of Internet Explorer prior to 6.0.

pages. A default facility-wide cascading style sheet used
by all web servers

and a second cascading style sheet used explicitly for the

generated pages. In addition, there are inline styles like
the following

used.

of the "Summary" line will be displayed by the rendering
engine. The

bottom half of this line and the second line will not be

displayed. If you refresh the page in an attempt to have
the missing text

displayed, The <h1>...</h1> and <h2>...</h2> titles that

highlights the area where the text should be, the text will
then be

rendered in the correct font, color, and font-weight.

you slide another window immediately over the text it will
disappear when

the window is moved away. However, if you slide a third

window over the top of the second window and the Internet
Explorer window

the text will reappear.

colleagues using other web pages. The common elements are
the use of Internet