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CSS causes Internet Explorer 6 and 5.5 to crash

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Internet Explorer 6 will simply crash just after you move your mouse pointer over one of the links on the next page.
The instance of iexplorer.exe which will try to render a CSS class property will be forced to close, together with its parents instances (e.g. if the current window has been opened using the "open in another window" menu).

AppName: iexplore.exeAppVer: 6.0.2900.2180ModName: mshtml.dll
ModVer: 6.0.2900.3199Offset: 00120521

The problem is caused by the mshtml.dll module, which is involved in the correct rendering of web pages.
It happens when a previously inline element with relative position tries to become an inline-block element.

The crash is caused by two simple CSS rules, applied to an anchor element:

a { position: relative;}
a:hover {display: inline-block;}

Internet Explorer 5.5 will also crash, I tested on Windows 98 and the system got so unstable I had to turn off the computer...

The XHTML code on which the crashing CSS rules are applied, can be found on the next page, to avoid unwanted browser crashes.

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