[ajaxarama]

Hi,

I have a perplexing issue that seems to be a rendering issue/bug but it is only prevalent in Internet Explorer 6. I have tried to figure out what is going on but this has me totally lost.

For a charity newsletter that I am creating it appears that the last few characters of certain lines of text are duplicated on a separate newline but only within IE6 and only on certain lines.

This duplicated text definitely does not appear in the HTML code, nor does IE6 allow this 'duplicated' text to be selected (but the correct text can be selected), which is why I am inclined to think it is a rendering bug.

The web-page URL in question is:
www dot ridbc dot org dot au slash renwick slash library slash insideinfo slash 2008 slash issue1.html

and this bug can be seen when viewed in IE6 after the first line where the links "RIDBC Home" and "RIDBC Renwick Centre" are displayed, on the next line are the letters "re" are shown, and these two letters shouldn't be displayed nor are they in IE7 or FF2.

It can also be seen further down the page, under the "Books" section, you can see that after the "Breakthrough parenting for children with special needs" book and the accompanying text of "Renwick Library Number: 649.151 WINT" the final 3 letters are duplicated on the next line i.e. "INT" within I6 but not in the source code.

The same happens for "The effects of genetic hearing impairment in the family" book with the line "Renwick Library Number: 617.8042 STEP-1" being duplicated as "-1" on the next line and also for "More than a Mom" with the text "Renwick Library Number: 649.15 BASK" being duplicated with "ASK" (amongst many others). Yet if you check the HTML source code there is no duplication of text!

Interestingly enough the very same issue also appears in IE6 on the following web-page:
www dot diabetesnsw dot com dot au
at the very bottom of the page under "Page last updated", you will see "il 2008" duplicated but only in IE6.

Attached are screengrabs which further explain the problem and the source code can be viewed from the above URL.










Any ideas?

Any help will be greatly appreciated as I can't seem to find a solution to this problem and unfortunately a lot of visitors to this site are still using IE6.

Regards,

[haku]

I read somewhere recently that if you have html comments between floated elements, this kind of error can appear in IE6. Have you done this?

Here's the URL for anyone who wants it:

InsideInfo | Issue #1, 2008 | Royal Institute For Deaf and Blind Children | RIDBC

[cam]

IE Duplicate Characters Bug - CSS fixes and workarounds

[ajaxarama]

Thanks haku and cam,
the problem was indeed the "IE Duplicate Characters Bug" explained on the PositionIsEverything site.

I simply replaced my HTML comments with IE conditional comments and the bug disappeared.

Thanks again for your help. Much appreciated