Jquery 1.6.2 Crashes IE8 Tabs

Question

Hello fellow developers,

I am a little stumped on this one as I have been using JQuery 1.6.2 with no issues until three days ago. (There was a service pack update at

Answer 1

I had a very similar issue with

• jQuery 1.6.2
• a facebook like button
• and a background image on the body element

As jjmontes stated above, removing / changing any of the above will solve the issue. Changing the IE mode to a compatibility mode did not resolve the issue, probably easiest way of avoiding this problem is to use a newer version of jQuery. Demo / test case (since the above is not online anymore) can be seen here.