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 think I have a good test case example here of this behavior:

http://onpoint.wbur.org/op_full.html

This page is running the latest Jquery, a Disqus script and not much else.

If you visit the page, it won't crash. But refreshing the page will cause IE8 to crash.

Fixes:

Any of the following will fix the crash:

• Remove Jquery
• Remove Disqus
• Remove the BODY style declaration altogether
• Remove just the background image call and instead use BG color
• Move the style block to below the Jquery call

So there's some interaction between the markup that the disqus script is pulling into the DOM, Jquery and the BODY css rule at the top.

Very strange but there's definitely a bug here, either in Disqus' markup or Jquery.