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Asked: 2026-05-15T01:55:09+00:00

The following HTML does not work in IE6 for me: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD

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The following HTML does not work in IE6 for me:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html><body>This text is visible.<textarea>This too.</textarea>
This is not visible.
<select><option value="a">A</option><option value="b">B</option></select>
Neither is this.
<textarea>Nor this.</textarea>
Nor this.
</body></html>

In IE6, every time I put a select drop-down in the code, everything thereafter dissappears (and some before too, as you can see). All texts are visible in both IE8 and Firefox. Is this a known bug on IE6? Could it have something to do with Windows 7? Or could it be my installation of Internet Explorer Collection 1.6.0.6 that is flawed?

Edit: here’s a screen:

alt text http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/7232/ie6selectshot.png

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  1. Editorial Team

    could it be my installation of Internet Explorer Collection 1.6.0.6 that is flawed?

    Probably, in as much as all multiple-IE-installer solutions are flawed. They never work exactly the same as the real browser. I can’t reproduce this problem in IE6.

    If you want to test across IE versions reliably, you’ll have to use virtual machines each with a different IE installed. eg. using MS’s free but annoyingly timebombed VirtualPC images.

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