Wierd bug I found when testing my site on IE: for some strange reason a chunk of text disappears when loading a page. If, however, I scroll down so that the text area is no longer on screen, then I scroll back up, the text magically appears!

I am currently using IE 6 to test this. The disappearing parts are the airplane manufacturer and the airplane name:

Exhibition A:

http://www.aviamil.net/entry.php?m=f-14

Even more strange is the fact that it doesn't happen in some pages:

http://www.aviamil.net/entry.php?m=f-15

Here's the code for the div tags where the text disappears

#entrymanuf {
	font-family: Arial;
	font-size: 14pt;
	}

#entrytitle {
	padding-bottom: 10px;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
	font-family: Arial;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-size: 18pt;
	}

what can it be?

    Have you been able to replicate this across multiple machines? I myself am using IE6 and don't see the strange behavior you've described (I tried multiple times).

      I tried it out in IE6 as well and it looks fine

        Looks the same for me here in IE6 and FF 2.0. Must be something local to your PC.

          I ran into something a couple years ago on a layout I was working on. I don't remember the specifics, other than it seemed to be triggered by the use of some negative margins. A work-around I stumbled upon was to add "position: relative;" to a couple of the elements in question.

          Sorry I can't be more specific, but it's been awhile and I don't have the actual page/stylesheet any more.

            Thanks for checking. I have not been able to load the page in another PC because the only other one in my household uses IE 7. It appears then that it is something specific to my PC in which case I am not worried anymore.

            P.S. did you test other pages besides those?

            Thanks!

              I don't see any nav to check other pages.

                5 days later

                I always thought IE just liked to amuse me when the screen got all jacked up.

                It's really fun to scroll up and down a bunch of times to try to destroy the viewing screen, then switch windows to get it all back.

                Yeah ... I'm odd.

                  5 months later

                  I have been told that the same version of IE will give different results based on what version of Windows you are using.

                  IE is such a piece of crap piece of software. If the world would wise up and just not use IE it would be a better place.

                  I ditched using CSS to format pages because there are too many bugs in IE you have to code for.

                    I don't have much problem. I'm sure I'm not alone in that.

                      Dawg wrote:

                      I have been told that the same version of IE will give different results based on what version of Windows you are using.

                      IE is such a piece of crap piece of software. If the world would wise up and just not use IE it would be a better place.

                      I ditched using CSS to format pages because there are too many bugs in IE you have to code for.

                      If you get IE out of "quirks mode" by making sure the very first line of the page is a fully qualified doctype declaration (which is required for your HTML mark-up to be valid, anyway), you take care of IE's worst offense, which is its incorrect box model dimensions. Once I do that I have very few problems (if any) getting my pages to display acceptably well even though they use table-less mark-ups with CSS for all the visual layout control.

                        Displays fine for me (both links), however the validator has one complaint, that UTF-8 isn't specified and you have a multibyte character on line 165 (copyright symbol):

                        Validator

                        Which shouldn't trip up most systems, just an observation, and probably not related to your main issue.

                        If you clear cache/cookies for that site, does the page display properly?

                          troybtj wrote:

                          Displays fine for me (both links), however the validator has one complaint, that UTF-8 isn't specified and you have a multibyte character on line 165 (copyright symbol):

                          Validator

                          Which shouldn't trip up most systems, just an observation, and probably not related to your main issue.

                          If you clear cache/cookies for that site, does the page display properly?

                          Note that the original post in this thread is 5 months old.

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