Another weird IE bug for you

Acronym titles that appear from nowhere!

[Hester]

Visit this page in IE6/Win:

[webstandards.org ]

Hover over the months down the right. (Or scroll down to the *second* news item, and hover over the links "posted by" and the date.)

In IE6 SP1 on Windows XP I'm getting an acronym title coming up that isn't there in the code! Well it is there in one of the articles, but never in the links.

Each time the plain links come up with a tooltip saying "European Computer Manufacturer's Association".

Note: it only seems to affect this one page.

What the.....?

[DrDoc]

It's not an IE bug - it's bad markup.
[validator.w3.org...]

[Hester]

This Page Is Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict!

Did they fix it?

[DrDoc]

Yep, they did.
They had a ton of problems...

Sometimes the acronym tag wasn't properly closed (missing / in the "closing" tag)
Sometimes the > in the closing tag was omitted as well (making it </acronym<a>)

[Hester]

I see! Thanks for that. (I'm surprised the page even worked.) Kinda ironic as well considering the website promotes writing proper code. :)

[g1smd]

>> I'm surprised the page even worked. <<

The Internet Exploiter will attempt to render almost any type of bad code that you care to throw at it. That is why web designers should always run their code through the validator and correct all of the mistakes that they can.

Err, see this too: [webmasterworld.com...]

[DrDoc]

Well, it worked in Opera and Mozilla as well.