Comments on: IE 6 renders a blank page on XHTML-style script end tag http://blog.yimingliu.com/2008/02/11/ie-6-renders-blank-page-on-xhtml-style/ source control for my (useless) knowledge Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:16:42 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sandy http://blog.yimingliu.com/2008/02/11/ie-6-renders-blank-page-on-xhtml-style/comment-page-1/#comment-702 Sandy Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:22:52 +0000 https://blog.yimingliu.com/2008/02/11/ie-6-renders-a-blank-page-on-xhtml-style-script-end-tag/#comment-702 Very informative and very helpful.. IE6&7 just went up by 10 places in why i hate MS list! Running around like a headless chicken to find why does a page works in FF but not in IE!! Thanks again for the info --Sandy Very informative and very helpful.. IE6&7 just went up by 10 places in why i hate MS list! Running around like a headless chicken to find why does a page works in FF but not in IE!!

Thanks again for the info
–Sandy

]]> By: Shaun http://blog.yimingliu.com/2008/02/11/ie-6-renders-blank-page-on-xhtml-style/comment-page-1/#comment-652 Shaun Fri, 29 May 2009 23:10:17 +0000 https://blog.yimingliu.com/2008/02/11/ie-6-renders-a-blank-page-on-xhtml-style-script-end-tag/#comment-652 ARGGG, without any "script/" tags ARGGG, without any “script/” tags

]]> By: Shaun http://blog.yimingliu.com/2008/02/11/ie-6-renders-blank-page-on-xhtml-style/comment-page-1/#comment-651 Shaun Fri, 29 May 2009 23:09:45 +0000 https://blog.yimingliu.com/2008/02/11/ie-6-renders-a-blank-page-on-xhtml-style-script-end-tag/#comment-651 sorry, without any tags, and applies to the meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" sorry, without any tags, and applies to the meta http-equiv=”Content-type” content=”text/html;charset=UTF-8″

]]> By: Shaun http://blog.yimingliu.com/2008/02/11/ie-6-renders-blank-page-on-xhtml-style/comment-page-1/#comment-650 Shaun Fri, 29 May 2009 23:08:49 +0000 https://blog.yimingliu.com/2008/02/11/ie-6-renders-a-blank-page-on-xhtml-style-script-end-tag/#comment-650 I've had the same problem but with pages WITHOUT any tags... HOWEVER I have found that it also applies to the tag. Once I remove it, everything renders fine on the first load. possible work around here? http://www.webmasterworld.com/html/3729894.htm I’ve had the same problem but with pages WITHOUT any tags… HOWEVER I have found that it also applies to the tag. Once I remove it, everything renders fine on the first load. possible work around here? http://www.webmasterworld.com/html/3729894.htm

]]> By: Dmytro Lapshyn http://blog.yimingliu.com/2008/02/11/ie-6-renders-blank-page-on-xhtml-style/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Dmytro Lapshyn Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:31:00 +0000 https://blog.yimingliu.com/2008/02/11/ie-6-renders-a-blank-page-on-xhtml-style-script-end-tag/#comment-34 Man, you just saved my day! This issue is present in IE7 and FireFox 3.0.3 as well, and I was literally pulling my hair! Man, you just saved my day! This issue is present in IE7 and FireFox 3.0.3 as well, and I was literally pulling my hair!

]]> By: Anonymous http://blog.yimingliu.com/2008/02/11/ie-6-renders-blank-page-on-xhtml-style/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Anonymous Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:06:00 +0000 https://blog.yimingliu.com/2008/02/11/ie-6-renders-a-blank-page-on-xhtml-style-script-end-tag/#comment-29 Thank you for helping me out on this one. You set me on the right track so now I've got rid of my blank page. The problem is, just as you describe, that <script> can't be a self-closing tag. So I just changed it to <script src="foo.js" type="text/javascript">dummy</script>.<br/>Even found out that IE have the same problem with self-closing <textarea>-tags.<br/>/Anders Thank you for helping me out on this one. You set me on the right track so now I've got rid of my blank page. The problem is, just as you describe, that <script> can't be a self-closing tag. So I just changed it to <script src="foo.js" type="text/javascript">dummy</script>.
Even found out that IE have the same problem with self-closing <textarea>-tags.
/Anders

]]> By: Jaka Jančar http://blog.yimingliu.com/2008/02/11/ie-6-renders-blank-page-on-xhtml-style/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Jaka Jančar Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:58:00 +0000 https://blog.yimingliu.com/2008/02/11/ie-6-renders-a-blank-page-on-xhtml-style-script-end-tag/#comment-23 I have had similar problems with div's rendering incorrectly if they were written as < div/> instead of < div>< /div>. At first I was quite puzzled because this should really be the same after it went through the XML parser.<br/><br/>Soon I realized that the page was being parsed as HTML regardless of the XHTML 1.0 Strict doctype and head meta tag. Only setting the HTTP Content-Type header to application/xhtml+xml forced it to really render as XHTML.<br/><br/>And I did that, only to find out two weeks later that IE doesn't render the XHTML content type _AT ALL_.<br/><br/>So as far as I can see it, without using browser specific logic, I can't really write pages that would render as XHTML anywhere. How lame. I have had similar problems with div's rendering incorrectly if they were written as < div/> instead of < div>< /div>. At first I was quite puzzled because this should really be the same after it went through the XML parser.

Soon I realized that the page was being parsed as HTML regardless of the XHTML 1.0 Strict doctype and head meta tag. Only setting the HTTP Content-Type header to application/xhtml+xml forced it to really render as XHTML.

And I did that, only to find out two weeks later that IE doesn't render the XHTML content type _AT ALL_.

So as far as I can see it, without using browser specific logic, I can't really write pages that would render as XHTML anywhere. How lame.

]]> By: Nathan http://blog.yimingliu.com/2008/02/11/ie-6-renders-blank-page-on-xhtml-style/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Nathan Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:17:00 +0000 https://blog.yimingliu.com/2008/02/11/ie-6-renders-a-blank-page-on-xhtml-style-script-end-tag/#comment-20 Just saw your other .innerHTML bug, then noted this in your archives.<br/><br/>This is bug 153 over at Web Bug Track:<br/>http://webbugtrack.blogspot.com/2007/08/bug-153-self-closing-script-tag-issues.html<br/><br/>Using the self closing (valid - xhtml) style tags causes issues in IE. The severity of which depends on the particular order of tags you add to the page. Just saw your other .innerHTML bug, then noted this in your archives.

This is bug 153 over at Web Bug Track:
http://webbugtrack.blogspot.com/2007/08/bug-153-self-closing-script-tag-issues.html

Using the self closing (valid – xhtml) style tags causes issues in IE. The severity of which depends on the particular order of tags you add to the page.

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