290699 - changing innerHTML makes div flicker

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[robert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

This is esp. important since we are amidst the AJAX hype.

When I change an element's innerHTML, the element flickers.

document.getElementById('some_el').innerHTML = 'New content';

IE doesn't flicker at all.

You can check this out at http://www.wmdb.org/
Check the online list on the bottom. It refreshes every 10 seconds with
XMLHttpRequest, and flickers in Firefox but not in IE

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Flickers in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7)
Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Doesn't flicker in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2)
Gecko/20050417 Firefox/1.0+

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Yes,this was already fixed in the latest nightly trunk builds, you can try those
out here:
http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

v

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 299176 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***