(Related to other post with minor refinements and perhaps slightly different use case then that one?).
This took hours to narrow down what specifically in my page's HTML/CSS combination was causing IE9 to crash with the "Internet Explorer has stopped working" error (if I choose to debug, the specific error was "Unhandled exception at 0x602508cb in iexplore.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000018." IE 8 did not crash. I narrowed it down to the following:
To reproduce, create an HTML page with this (seemingly) simple table:
<table>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
TEST ROW
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1" id="tr1">
<td class="blank">
test
</td>
<td>
test
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Add this CSS:
<style>
.tr1 td, th
{
border: 1px solid Black;
}
td.blank
{
border:0 !important;
}
table
{
border-collapse: collapse;
}
</style>
Add this button (or any other mechanism) to hide the second row:
<input type="button" onclick="document.getElementById('tr1').style.display='none';"
value="Hide Table Row" />
If you click the button, you will reliably reproduce the IE9 bug.
Anyway, I wanted to post this bug because I could not find a single posting that matched the error code "Unhandled exception at 0x602508cb in iexplore.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000018." and hope this helps the next guy.
Does anyone else have any workarounds they want to contribute? Have you come accross this bug? Anyone in the IE 10/Windows preview group know if IE 10 has same issue?. If not, would you mind filing this as a bug?