IE6 goint nutz?... please help me out with this!

[Detonator]

Guys, first of all hello to everybody and thanks for bringing such a good source of information to all of us. I would like my first post to be different but anyway, I'm a going crazy with this problem.

I've always being perfectionist from the code point of view as in for validation, structure, etc. And never have had any problem with this, until today. I have this page that DOES validate as HTML 4.01 transitional, but when I try to see it it HANGS my IE6. Again, this is the very first time i see something like this. The most weird thing is that I could isolate the problem at all. I delete two lines and the page starts working, I put the lines back and delete any other two lines and it breaks again, GOSH!

Any clues? Thanks in advance, i will really appreciate any, ANY help or tip you can give me as I really need to publish this page and I've no idea what to do!

[oilman]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld Detonator

what is in those 2 lines you delete?

[Detonator]

the lines are totally arbitrary, i mean, it looks like it had a size litmit or something, like when it get bigger than X size it stops working, but the thing that totally lost me here is that this page is a REDUCED version of a page that IS working, but it stoped working after I removed a coupled a couple of paragraphs at the top.

it would be great if i could post the url so you can see it blow with your own eyes? i'm not allowed to do that, am i?

[tedster]

Right, Detonator. We don't accept links for review of pages, problems, etc. For one thing, since so may marketers use these forums, that would open us up to posts made "just" to get a link. And for another, once the linked page changes, then the thread becomes hard to understand.

However, I'm sure we can zero in on something here for you. First thing -- is this a very big file? How many kilobytes? Does picking ANY two lines to delete fix the problem? No matter where they are in the layout?

[Detonator]

Thank you tedster! Well, I'm still researching... it's not two lines. it's four.. quite the same thing. I don't think it's a size issue since I have much bigger pages that work just fine. Anyway, the file size as Brett's validator reports it (since i cannot see it in IE) is 22053 bytes. Weird...

[Detonator]

And I keep in trying. I tried and removed the four last lines before the closing body tag and it works. I put the 4 lines back and it breaks. I tried removing the four first lines before the opening body tag and it worked again. I put those four lines back and it breaks. Finally I've tried removing 4 lines in the middle but that didn't make it work. I'm about to throw this by the window...

[oilman]

You have a few calls to external javascripts on that page. Perhaps one of those is causing grief. Try commenting them out one at a time and see what happens.