Microsoft KB Archive/175320

= PRB: Samples Displaying Blank Pages After Internet Explorer 4.0 Installation =

Article ID: 175320

Article Last Modified on 2/12/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 128-Bit Edition
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 128-Bit Edition
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 128-Bit Edition
 * Microsoft Visual InterDev 1.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q175320



SYMPTOMS
When viewing the "Dos Perros" sample that comes with Visual InterDev, the first page displays correctly, but navigating to one of the links on the site map displays a blank screen.



CAUSE
The following conditions cause this error to occur:
 * The client is using Internet Explorer 4.0 to view the page.
 * The page contains both a "" tag and a "" tag (for example, the "Nav.asp" page in the DosPerros sample).

FRAMESET and BODY are mutually exclusive tags for IE4. Either use one or the other. If you use both, the second one will be ignored.

This was done in Internet Explorer 4.0 to ensure compatibility with Netscape and to comply with HTML 4 DTD.



RESOLUTION
Remove the BODY tag in "Nav.asp" of your DosPerros project.

In general, if you are using the BODY element to set attributes for the contents of the FRAMESET, move these attributes to the FRAMESET.

Any SCRIPT or OBJECT tags used in a FRAMESET definition document should be defined in the HEAD section of the document; otherwise, they will imply a BODY element, and the FRAMESET will be ignored.



STATUS
This IE 4.0 behavior is by design.

