When you say "drop down list box" do you mean items created using the
<select></select> tags? You will get very strange behavior if you try to use
more than 100 select tags in IE and Netscape on most 9x OS versions. Either
the select boxes won't show up or when you scroll, the display will distort.
I too have had tons of problems with this tag, but thought it was browser,
not OS, specific. Mozilla always displayed my pages fine, even in 98. But
you have discovered a known bug (to me, at least) and it's best to re-design
your pages (at least your use of select tags) unless you can choose a
platform for all users that will operate correctly.

As far as known fixes go, I tried using IE 6.x on 98 and that helped up to
about 200 select boxes. Maybe 98 has a problem with select tags, since they
are considered window elements. The bug IMO is with the DOM used in the
browsers, or how they allocate objects through the OS.

John Owen
Senior Developer
Federal TransTel

-----Original Message-----
From: R Gondzur [mailto:rmgondzur@h...]
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 9:49 PM
To: HTML Code Clinic
Subject: [html_code_clinic] Listbox Display Error in IE on Win 98


I have a web app (ASP page) that returns up to 250 record sets to the 
browser.

Each record displays a drop down list box.

When that page displays in IE 5.5 on a Win 98 system, the listboxes do not
display.

When that page displays in IE 5.5 on a Win 2000 system, the listboxes do
display correctly.

Extensive testing has proven it to be a problem specifically on Win 98.

Has anyone experienced this behavior and know of a fix?

Thanks,

rmgondzur@h...


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