Microsoft KB Archive/154446

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Internet Explorer Displays Partial or No Web Page

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Q154446

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 2.01, 3.0, 3.01, 3.02a for Windows 3.1

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SYMPTOMS
When you connect to a Web page in Internet Explorer, the page may not be displayed in its entirety or at all. When this occurs, there is no error message, and you can view the Web page's source code by clicking Source on the View menu.

CAUSE
This behavior can occur if the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) source code contains comment tags that have not been closed correctly. For example, if a comment contains the "" tag, Internet Explorer does not display anything after the comment.

RESOLUTION
Have the author of the Web page edit the HTML source code so that the comment is correctly tagged.

MORE INFORMATION
Request For Comments (RFC) 1866 for HTML 2.0, in section 3.2.5, "Comments," states the following:

"A comment declaration consists of '<!' followed by zero or more comments followed by '>'. Each comment starts with '--' and includes all text up to and including the next occurrence of '--'." Internet Explorer for Windows 95 and Internet Explorer for Windows NT properly display a Web page even if an HTML comment is not closed correctly.

Additional query words: 2.01

Keywords : msiew31

Issue type :

Technology : kbIEsearch kbZNotKeyword2 kbIE310Search kbZNotKeyword3 kbIE201Win310 kbIE300Win310 kbIE301Win310 kbIE302aWin310