Base Tag Problems with IE6

Sorry if this has been posted before. The following:



results in not being able to select any text on the webpage in IE6. However this allows selection:



Sigh...another Microsoft bug...

Andy

Yep, this same bug will also kill a lot of more complex javascript applications like UFO.

The site I discovered this happening on is using XHTML strict...

Andy

results in not being able to select any text on the webpage in IE6.

So this means that the visitor cannot select the text. But will it display correctly and all other features work? Will buttons and text fields work?

Sorry for all the questions, but I don’t have access at the moment to IE6

Actually, I’ve experienced the bug when using the short closing tag with XHTML strict and transitional doctypes, i.e. <base href="..." />, and with several different javascripts, including UFO, SWFObject, Mootools, and several custom js files. And in these cases, it’s not just a rendering bug, IE6 reports an error via dialog that opening the web page has caused an error, and doesn’t even attempt to render a single part of the page.

Using the full closing tag with all doc types corrects the problem.

It is definitely an IE6 bug with any doctype, so you should always use the </base> closing tag.

What puzzles me is that this has been in templates for a long time now, and nobody else has noticed the problem?

I had this once or twice thinking that it was a design flaw with my website.

That and stuff like this italics bug is enough to make one tear out one’s hair  At least with this one you can fix it easily, but one can never be sure where the client will decide to use italics.

I had the full base tags but
I still have this is big issue with Maxigallery on IE

I’m using http://www.jeroenwijering.com/ mediaplayer to rotate swf banner (mixed swf, jpg or whatever) and the Maxigallery pages crash IE

Some clues are supposed to be found here http://aralbalkan.com/912 or here http://www.rednas.be/news/43/swfobject-internet-explorer-error-fix

I guess the swfobject coming with the mediaplayer script is not the original one...(?)

but I dont have the coding skill to deal whith it and really needa some hand.

Thank you