Ghost cell in IE9 with Repeater Control

Question

IE9 Generate blank cell or you can say Ghost Cell, with ASP.Net Repeater control. I try javascript regural expression. Render function to run reg. exp. but the page holds few update controls and generate error.

Error: sys.webforms.pagerequestmanagerservererrorexception the message received from the server could not be parsed. ScriptResource.axd

I try all the well known links for this error. Please suggest me if you really have...

Thank You

protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
    {
      using (HtmlTextWriter htmlwriter = new HtmlTextWriter(new System.IO.StringWriter()))
      {
        base.Render(htmlwriter);
        string html = htmlwriter.InnerWriter.ToString();
         if ((ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("RemoveWhitespace") + string.Empty).Equals("true", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
          {
            //html = Regex.Replace(html, @"(?<=[^])\t{2,}|(?<=[>])\s{2,}(?=[<])|(?<=[>])\s{2,11}(?=[<])|(?=[\n])\s{2,}", string.Empty);
            html = Regex.Replace(html, @"(?<=<td[^>]*>)(?>\s+)(?!<table)|(?<!</table>\s*)\s+(?=</td>)", string.Empty);
            html = html.Replace(";\n", ";");
          }
         writer.Write(html.Trim());
      }

another Solution is, but fail for Repeater

var expr = new RegExp('>[ \t\r\n\v\f]*<', 'g'); 
document.body.innerHTML = document.body.innerHTML.replace(expr, '><');

is it possible to remove blank space between when Repeater control create new row .... I don't know how .... any one have idea... — user2110717, Mar 13 '13 at 04:26

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 12 '13 at 15:33

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You can access the Repeater control directly (before it's written to the page and rendered by IE) and remove the cells based on their index.

answered Mar 12 '13 at 15:33

Dave Mroz

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thanks ... but these cells are not defined by me they are generated by IE9 only ... no other browser do that – user2110717 Mar 13 '13 at 04:10
I just re-read your post. Are you saying that IE is adding an extra cell to the table, or just an extra space between the TD tags? – Dave Mroz Mar 13 '13 at 16:56
Yes its IE9 Bug. Please look that,its look same.. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5805956/internet-explorer-9-not-rendering-table-cells-properly – user2110717 Mar 14 '13 at 05:16
but i have simple ASPX page with repeater control using C#. NO Jquery, No Ajax – user2110717 Mar 14 '13 at 05:20
Whitespace between tags [inside of tables] should be ignored and no browser should be interpreting that as an extra cell. – Dave Mroz Mar 14 '13 at 13:37
Do you have a sample we can see? – Dave Mroz Mar 14 '13 at 13:38
Yes you are right no browser should interpret but IE9 create that with Table generate Dynamicly... Pls look this like my problem is same as that..http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5805956/internet-explorer-9-not-rendering-table-cells-properly – user2110717 Mar 15 '13 at 04:31
I have one soloution for that but its no reliable all the time.that is remove space between at Designing but what if another developer use Ctrl + E,D.... – user2110717 Mar 15 '13 at 04:34
It certainly shouldn't matter. I've seen hundreds of spaces and line breaks in the middle of tables and they still generate correctly. – Dave Mroz Mar 15 '13 at 10:45
This thread is more specific about a solution: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7267014/ie9-table-has-random-rows-which-are-offset-at-random-columns – Dave Mroz Mar 15 '13 at 10:45
Thanks Dave, But I already try to do that, if I go through Regex show js error which i writen in my question. – user2110717 Mar 15 '13 at 11:50
Without seeing some output HTML to work with, it's tough to troubleshoot remotely. But one thing I noticed is that they did the HTML scrubbing on the client side whereas you're trying to do it on the server. Maybe give it a try using jQuery or good old fashioned JavaScript? – Dave Mroz Mar 15 '13 at 15:51

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 02 '13 at 10:38

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Need to remove spaces between "< /td >" and "< td >".

answered May 02 '13 at 10:38

user2110717

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 16 '16 at 09:57

Found a very useful script to prevent unwanted cells in your html table while rendering in IE9 browser.

function removeWhiteSpaces()
{
   $('#myTable').html(function(i, el) {
      return el.replace(/>\s*</g, '><');
   });
}

This javascript function you should call when the page loads (i.e. onload event)

Ghost cell in IE9 with Repeater Control

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