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Topic: Internet Explorer 8 CSS flicker problem

Hi everyone and thanx for reading this post about the BIGGEST CSS headache I've had in my career as webdeveloper!

To explain the problem in short:
I've made a website for a client that for some strange reason flicker on refresh in IE8. If I hit the refresh button several times, also background images partly disappear(See the image below.. (and where backgroundimages disappear is random each time..))

Yndestadferie

I've tried to remove all JavaScripts: Does not solve it!
I've tried to partly remove CSS classes and ID's: Does not solve it!

I'm, for the first time in my career, completely stuck! It could be something in the XHTML markup thats causing it, or a combination of the CSS and the XHTML..

If you wish to help me, you can download a static html file and a few folders stuffed in a zip file. See the url below.

ht tp://w ww.codeservic e.n o/codeservice_debug_project.z ip

You can also see the working website with the bug at htt p://w ww.yndestadferi e.n o/

Thanx a MILLION for all help I can get:)

Last edited by Terratuner (June 26, 2009 4:21 pm)

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  • Eric
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Re: Internet Explorer 8 CSS flicker problem

The live website link is only a single line of text?

www.visibilityinherit.com/tools.php

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  • From: Norway
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Re: Internet Explorer 8 CSS flicker problem

Sorry, it's been down for three hours (changed webhost) but it's up and running again now:)

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  • Eric
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Re: Internet Explorer 8 CSS flicker problem

Sorry to say, but I don't see it? My guess would be what your seeing is just IE8 downloading the images a little differently/slower. But, I definitely don't get any flicker...

Last edited by Eric (June 25, 2009 10:39 am)

www.visibilityinherit.com/tools.php

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  • From: Norway
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Re: Internet Explorer 8 CSS flicker problem

Hmmm.. Well ok, if you say so. I'll try to display the webpage from another computer. So you don't see any errors at all?

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Re: Internet Explorer 8 CSS flicker problem

No errors at all (visually at least - didn't look at code).

www.visibilityinherit.com/tools.php

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  • From: Norway
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Re: Internet Explorer 8 CSS flicker problem

Thanks a lot for your time Sir big_smile

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  • erikb
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Re: Internet Explorer 8 CSS flicker problem

Terratuner, could you tell me how you fixed this problem?
I've been stuck on the same problem for weeks now and it is already a real pain in the ass.

The strangest thing is that often background images are only partly missing.
Just switching between windows with alt-tab is enough to let ie8 fix the broken parts.

Anyone?

edit: Also this only seems to appear with windows vista / ie8 and compatibilitymode off.

Last edited by erikb (September 7, 2009 1:44 pm)

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Re: Internet Explorer 8 CSS flicker problem

also appears on XP / ie8

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  • lm
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Re: Internet Explorer 8 CSS flicker problem

have you tried to add this line:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />

to your meta tags, if you have no problems with bg image in IE7?

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  • erikb
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Re: Internet Explorer 8 CSS flicker problem

Yes, i'm using it to avoid this problem.

But I think it should be possible to render the page normally in IE8 without using this solution.

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