Re: Rendering Engine Does Not Display All Text on a Page

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From: Robert Aldwinckle (robald_at_techemail.com)
Date: 04/11/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 12:41:41 -0400

> 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.

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http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&c2coff=1&frame=right&th=34f2e1c8c932343b&seekm=935801c1c2d3%247c62eaf0%24a5e62ecf%40tkmsftngxa07#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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"Merton Campbell Crockett" <mcc@CATO.GD-AIS.COM> wrote in message
news:C13D093B-7324-44DF-9C5B-A5A902E4A5E6@microsoft.com...
> 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 Crockett
>

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