Requires: ghost table IE9, live and without JS

Question

The IE9 build engine has table problems. The space seems to be at the root.

If you saw the infamous ghost cage, you know what I'm talking about, if you haven’t done this, consider yourself happy and don’t worry about it.

In any case, I would really like the HTML sample to test the “fixes”.

I know that I saw this before, in odd circumstances, several layout tables, but I can no longer make the ghost cell appear when I need it.

I need a consistent ghost cell without calling JS.

I found several related to JS, and there is a lot of discussion about them when it comes to sorting.

This is a great example:

http://www.ncf.ca/ncf/support/ie9_issue/index.html

Some discussions:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/iewebdevelopment/thread/28d78780-c95c-4c35-9695-237ebb912d90

http://datatables.net/forums/discussion/5481/bug-ghost-columns-when-generating-large-tables/p1

http://datatables.net/forums/discussion/8248/datatable-in-ie-9-bug-with-large-tables/p1

Answer 1

I managed to clear html well and still keep the problem. I replaced all javascript with equivalent spaces and newlines and could remove most element attributes without affecting the ghost cell.

IE seems to have a buffer problem, since deleting single spaces or newlines in the “safe zone” causes the ghost cell to disappear, and deleting whole attributes does not affect rendering.

I see that you have private tags, but I also managed to completely remove them (replace with spaces) without deleting the ghost cell.

Result: I have javascript-free html with ghost-cell. See Result here: http://compscicon.no/ghostcell.htm