IE8 overflow:auto with max-height

Question

I have an element which may contain very big amounts of data, but I don\'t want it to ruin the page layout, so I set max-height: 100px and overflow:auto

Answer 1

To reproduce:

(This crashes the whole page.)

    



    look:
    
    

        

            

                

                    

                        

                            

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(Whereas this works fine...)

    



    look:
    
    

        

            

                

                    

                        

                            

                                The quick brown fox
                            
                        
                    
                
            
        
    

(And, madly, so does this. [No content in the div at all.])

    



    look: