Internet Explorer 6 SP 1 Cant Display Blank Pixel GIF Right.

I have been having a issue with IE 6 SP1 not displaying a blank pixel gif that i use to space out the page. I have a screenshot of the page and the blank spots you see that are not loaded images are the blank_pixel.gif a 1 x 1 gif that is a transparent pixel. I can right click the picture and do SHOW PICTURE and it shows the images that were not loaded correctly. I also can hit GO in the browser title bar and it loads fine. Also the site looks fine in any other browser, Nescrape and Mozilla.

Help anyone?

<a href="http://www.restorekids.com/wreed/images/internetexplorer6_1.jpg"><img src="http://www.restorekids.com/wreed/images/internetexplorer6_1.jpg" width="800" height="600"></a>

Just wanted to add this was Windows 2000 with IE 6 SP1.

I just noticed that it happened here on OZZU forums when the image didnt load and showed a RED X....so I right clicked and did SHOW PICTURE and it loaded fine. Anyone seen this before?

It happens intermittently here at ozzu to me, although not very often.

I'm not sure why it isn't finding you blank image, but if you're not already using vspace and hspace try setting the width and height to 1 and using vspace="10" and hspace="10" or whatever for the spacing around the image. You might prevent the blank area from becoming visible if the transparent image doesn't load. At a width and height of 1, IE doesn't show anything to me when a transparent image doesn't load, but it still provides the spacing specified in vspace and hspace. At least it does for me with IE 6 and win98 and NE 7 seems to behave the same way for me.

Those spaces are caused by a blank_pixel.gif with attributes like this...



Could it be the XML breaktag? Or the XML /> ?

Have you tried



I'm not a cold fusion expert, but I've seen it done that way.

That rootpath is defined on our webserver and it works fine for normal gifs elsewhere its not every image on the page, it just seems to be ones with Transparency in them....I have some arrow gifs that dont show up sometimes but when you do a show picture they do.

If it's inserting the path correctly, I don't know why it's not finding it. I don't think the transparent nature of it would be a factor, but I always used to use vspace and hspace for the space around the transparent image and set the width and height to 1 in case it didn't load properly.

Maybe someone else will be able to help you out.

Yea thanks for the help but I have Microsoft on it cause I think its a IE 6 SP1 bug...but i dont think everyone has the problem though....I know at home I have XP with IE 6 SP1 and I never have this problem....its very strange.

I thought maybe someone had the problem and corrected it somehow.

Try making the image 2x2 pixels. I've had similar probs with 1X1 pixels in the past but never have with 2x2

hmm that didnt work, it seems to only happen when I stretch the image out when its a blank pixel but I do get it occasionally on other images but not as often as the blank_pixel which is 1 by 1 that I am stretching.

Do you have problems loading any other gifs? I had this problem about 6 months ago and it is in fact a Microsoft SP1 bug. For me sometimes the gifs would load and other times it would not load. It would be totally random and if I would hit refresh on the page you could clearly see it loading sometimes, and clearly not loading other times. I looked at the server logs to see what was going on and the times it did not load was when the browser never even made a http request to the server for that image.

I remembered when I searched Google there was tons of talk about it. The bug was really botherhing me but I was finally able to fix it by reinstalling my entire computer. After I installed I did not reinstall SP1, and my problem was gone. Since that time I have now installed all the service packs again and I still have no problems so I assumed Microsoft finally fixed their bug. Did this bug take place after you installed Service Pack 1?

You hit the nail on the head, its a bug that happened right after SP1 install, I just dont want to reinstall the pc. I am gonna go back to 5.5 just waiting on this MS rep to give up. He keeps giving me fixes that do not work. He sent me hot fix that was in relation to this article Q817177.

ITs really frustrating and silly that MS cant fix this, it does happen on other gifs besides the blank one, and when you reload it may work but GO works better.

I remember before I tried numerous fixes as well, and they all did not work. That was why I finally gave up and reinstalled. I am curious though, when I had that problem usually parts of this graph would never load:

http://www.bigwebmaster.com/dvts/admin. ... s_per_hour

Hit refresh about 10 times and after each refresh see if the graph loads completley or if you get x's or spots that are missing in the graph.

oh yea I get tons of red x's...but i hit go and the graph loads RIGHT. Weird. You gots to love MS, what did they change in the SP1 update. This doesnt happen at home on XP and IE 6 Sp1.

Yup, I still cannot believe Microsoft has this problem. I thought it would have been fixed by now. When I had the bug it was with Windows XP. After reinstalling Windows XP and getting all the updates again the bug was not there. I have not seen that bug anymore since.