Why does ASP.NET cause the “Operation Aborted” Error in IE7?

Question

I have been reading lots of blog posts offering cause and solution to the \"Operation Aborted\" error in IE. I recently built an application that is getting this error for s

Answer 1

See bug report here:

http://webbugtrack.blogspot.com/2008/08/bug-404-operation-aborted-in-ie.html

in short:

1. The HTML file is being parsed

2. script is executing

3. The executing script attempts to (add or remove) an element from an unclosed ancestor in the markup tree (excluding immediate parent of the script element)

The good news is that this is partially fixed in IE8.