Page load never ends

Bob Murdoch · Dec 2, 2003

I have a relatively simple ASP page written in javascript, that basically
contains a table, a dropdown list populated by a query, and a button.

The problem is that when first navigating to this page, the progress bar in
IE only shows the page as being 10 or 20% complete, even though the page has
fully loaded.

I originally had a mix of html/jscript/html (in that order), and tried
changing that to html/jscript just to see if the conversion from static to
dynamic to static code was causing a problem, but with no effect.

I have run the output of this page thru two or three different html
validators, none of which show a problem with the final code.

I'm using IIS on W2k server, and IE6 or IE5.5 on client.

tia for any pointers,

Bob M..

John Beschler · Dec 2, 2003

Let me be the first to say: Please post the relevant code.

Bob Murdoch · Dec 2, 2003

John Beschler said:
Let me be the first to say: Please post the relevant code.

<G>.

I was going to, but didn't want to waste anyone's bandwidth if this was a
common problem. Here it is:

<%@ language="JavaScript"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">


<link REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css"
HREF="/BTRC/Shared/Style/Style.css">
<link REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css"
HREF="/BTRC/Shared/Style/BgStyles.css">
<link REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" HREF="Style/Style.css">
</head>
<body leftmargin=10 topmargin=10>
<script language="javascript" src="scripts/titleband.js"
type=text/javascript></script>
<script language='javascript'>
function DoCarrierSelectChange(ASelect)
{
document.URL = "SaveCarrier.asp" + ASelect.value;
}
ClearTitleHtml();
AddTitleHtml("<span style='position:absolute;left:10;'>Change
Carrier</span>");
</script>
<center>
<table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'>
<tr>
<td>
<table class='inner' border='0' cellpadding='2' cellspacing='1'>
<tr class='SUB_HEADER_ONE'>
<td colspan='2'>Change Carrier
<%
var vCarrierName = String(Request.Cookies("CarrierName"));
if (vCarrierName != "")
Response.write(" from " + vCarrierName);
%>
</td>
</tr>
<tr height="40" class='data_light'>
<td>
<table height='100%'>
<tr>
<td>Select a Carrier</td><td>
<%
Response.write('Session("securitytoken")=' + Session("SecurityToken") +
'<BR>');
Response.write("<select id='CarrierSelect'>\n");
ConnectDb();
BeginTrans();
vSQL =
'select '+
' C.carrier_id as ID, C.carrier_name as CName '+
'from '+
' security_token ST '+
' join user_carrier UC on UC.user_id = ST.user_id '+
' join carrier C on c.carrier_id = uc.carrier_id '+
'where '+
' st.security_token_id=' + Session("SecurityToken") + ' ' +
'order by '+
' C.carrier_name';
vCarrierList = ExecSQL(vSQL);
if (vCarrierList != null)
{
while (!vCarrierList.EOF)
{
Response.write(
"<option value='?id=" +
vCarrierList.Fields("ID").Value +
"&name=" +
vCarrierList.Fields("CName").Value);

if (String(vCarrierList.Fields("ID").Value) ==
String(Request.Cookies("CarrierId")))
Response.write("' selected>");
else
Response.write("'>");
Response.write(vCarrierList.Fields("CName").Value);
Response.write("</option>\n");
vCarrierList.Move(1);
}
}
else
Response.write('<option selected>Debug: Null result set</option>');
Commit();
DisconnectDb();
Response.write('</select>\n');
Response.write(' </td>\n');
Response.write(' </tr>\n');
Response.write(' </table>\n');
Response.write(' </td>\n');
Response.write(' </tr>\n');
Response.write(' </table>\n');
Response.write(' </td>\n');
Response.write(' </tr>\n');
Response.write(' <tr><td height="10"></td></tr>\n');
Response.write(' <tr height="34">\n');
Response.write(' <td colspan="2" class="buttons"
align="right">\n');
Response.write(' <button id=OkButton
onclick="DoCarrierSelectChange(CarrierSelect);"
style="width:75;margin-right:5;margin-left:5">Ok</button>\n');
Response.write(' </td>\n');
Response.write(' </tr>\n');
Response.write(' </table>\n');
Response.write(' </center>\n');
Response.write('</body>\n');
Response.write('</html>\n');
Response.End;
%>

Dave Anderson · Dec 2, 2003

Bob Murdoch said:
...
Response.End;

That should be Response.End(), though you could just leave this off.

Could you post the last few lines of generated source code?

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William Morris · Dec 2, 2003

Bob,

I don't remember where I read this, but this is a known issue with IE.
Pages that contain client-side javascript will sometimes cause IE to get
"confused", and the progress bar never stops updating. There's nothing
wrong with your programming, and the page is finished loading.

I'm team lead on a rather large intranet project, and so far we haven't
found a workaround for it.

Best regards,

- Wm

Dave Anderson · Dec 2, 2003

William Morris said:
...There's nothing wrong with your programming, and
the page is finished loading...

I'm just curious -- have you ever tried document.close() ?

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William Morris · Dec 2, 2003

Shoot, I've never even heard of document.close(). What is it? The
client-side equivalent of "response.end()?"

Incidentally, we have started adding response.end as the last line of every
top level ASP page. No results to report yet.

Aaron Bertrand - MVP · Dec 2, 2003

Incidentally, we have started adding response.end as the last line of
every

top level ASP page.

I'd be very surprised if that solved anything... the issue is with the
client-side code, not the server-side code.

Bob Murdoch · Dec 2, 2003

Dave Anderson said:
Could you post the last few lines of generated source code?

Absolutely. I'm assuming you mean the html source from the browser?

</select>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td height="10"></td></tr>
<tr height="34">
<td colspan="2" class="buttons" align="right">
<button id=OkButton
onclick="DoCarrierSelectChange(CarrierSelect);"
style="width:75;margin-right:5;margin-left:5">Ok</button>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
</body>
</html>

Dave Anderson · Dec 2, 2003

William Morris said:
Shoot, I've never even heard of document.close(). What is it?
http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-DOM-Level-1-20000929/level-one-html.html#ID-98948567
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/close_1.asp

The client-side equivalent of "response.end()?"

Sort of. Response.End() flushes the response buffer and ends all variable
scope. document.close() closes the document stream and forces rendering. If
any of your included client-side JScript uses document.write(), you should
use document.close() to close the stream.

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Dave Anderson · Dec 2, 2003

I said:
If any of your included client-side JScript uses
document.write(), you should use document.close()
to close the stream.

Perhaps *should* is too strong a word. You *can* use it to close the stream.
I was just curious to know if doing so had any effect. I imagine you have to
be careful about where you use it, as it would seem to require that nothing
follow it. Perhaps in an ONLOAD handler?

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