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Internet Explorer Improperly Refreshes HTML Page

Article ID: 200131

Article Last Modified on 5/11/2006

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 1

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SYMPTOMS

If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 SP1, you may notice drop-down boxes are not refreshed properly on an HTML page containing enabled and disabled drop-down boxes. For example, you could access a page that has three drop-down boxes where the first drop-down box is enabled and the second and third drop-down boxes are disabled. Click on the enabled drop-down box so the drop-down boxes below it are covered by this drop-down. Then release the top dropdown box, and you can see that the disabled drop-downs are not refreshed.

RESOLUTION

You can workaround this problem by adding an HTML page containing the drop-down boxes that will resolve this problem. Wrap the populate calls done in the event handlers inside a setTimeout call. For example, "functioncall();" would become "setTimeout("functioncall();", 0);".

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 1.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information about developing Web-based solutions for Microsoft Internet Explorer, visit the following Microsoft Web sites:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie/

http://support.microsoft.com/iep

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