IE7 crashes on element creation

[Dan Grossman]

I have a page which causes IE7 to error with "Internet explorer cannot open the Internet site [url] Operation aborted." then go to its default error page.

Problem is it's already displayed 90% of the page at that point, and it's a fairly simple piece of JavaScript that's causing the crash. Put in a blank page, it causes no harm.

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
	var vd = document.createElement('div');
	vd.style.display = 'none';
	vd.style.position = 'absolute';
	vd.style.top = '200px';
	vd.style.left = '200px';
	vd.style.backgroundColor = '#fff';
	vd.style.zIndex = '1000';
	vd.style.width = '400px';
	vd.style.border = '1px solid #000';
	vd.style.textAlign = 'left';
	vd.id = 'visitor_detail';
	document.body.appendChild(vd);

//]]>
</script>

I can't figure out why, I hope someone else can. Sorry to link to it, but I can't reproduce it outside the actual page it happens on:

[Removed my link to a crashing page]

Also, the error persists if I remove all the properties and just append an empty div.

If anyone can help me figure out why creating this div crashes the browser, I'd be very happy. I did so to fix a display bug in Safari when I just had a <div> with styles after all.

[stereofrog]

http://www.google.com/search?q=&#37;22op...n%20aborted%22

You're not alone.

[Dan Grossman]

Thanks stereofrog. All fixed up.