HTML code that can make IE freeze

We simply need to open any text editor, copy the following code into it, and save the file, for example SomeFilename.html.

Copy code

The code is as follows:

<html><head>
<style type="text/css">
#a {
margin:0 10px 10px;
}
#b {
width:100%;
}
</style>
<title>IE Crasher</title>
</head>
<body>
<table><tr><td>
<div id="a">
<form id="b">
<input type="text" name="test"/>
</div>
</td><td width="1"></td></tr></table>
</body></html>

Then open it with Internet Explorer - haha! It died miserably for you to see.

This bug exists in almost all popular IE versions, from IE6 to the just-released 6th platform preview of Internet Explorer 9. In IE6, the page often appears blank, but the entire window is not interactive. In IE8, the crash is complete. IE9 Beta has enhanced robustness. Through my actual testing, this page will cause the entire process to become unresponsive. Sometimes IE9 will prompt you that there are problems with the webpage, but this cannot avoid the reality of crashing.

In fact, this problem has been discovered a long time ago, and there is even a dedicated website (http://crashie8.com/, please spread this link with caution). Any browser other than IE would have no problem opening the page, but IE crashed inexplicably.

Of course, if you are careful, you will find that the <form> tag in the above HTML code is not closed. We need to use the </form> closing tag after the <input> tag to make this code conform to the specification. Standard code will not cause IE to crash, so it seems that it is not IE's fault.

However, when other browsers have high fault tolerance, IE does not, even in IE9 it still does not have it. This is the tragedy of IE.

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