Stop IE Flickering Between Pages

Thursday, January 31, 2008

I dont know if anyone has noticed but in IE when you click between pages in your site that have common elements i.e. a header. Your page will flicker for a brief moment. But in FireFox the page will not flicker and it will look smooth. I came across a fix for IE that will make this smooth just like in firefox.

To use simply add the following 2 tags into your <head> section on your page:

Hope you find this useful.

Thanks
Stefan

26 Comments

It is called "fajax" or "fake ajax". (Google would give a lot of results if you google for it)

Uwe - Thursday, January 31, 2008 6:33:46 AM

Using fajax with the Asp.Net Ajax Extensions produces a very smooth UI for web applications.

AndrewSeven - Thursday, January 31, 2008 2:51:09 PM

Also known as fade-jax. Just a little humor on the ajax side of things.

mikedopp - Thursday, January 31, 2008 10:53:59 PM

Tables, ewwwww heheh I refuse to use a table for anything. If I get a cutup with tables I tend to change it right away. Just dont like using them even if its harder to get done other way.

Stefan

stefan.sedich - Friday, February 1, 2008 4:23:51 AM

Wow!!! What a great fix. Why isn't this IE problem more well known? FireFox does not have this flickering problem.
No luck using an Ajax Update Panel in the .aspx page to stop the flickering.

Ron Medellin - Thursday, March 27, 2008 5:53:08 PM

Thanks! Awesome trick and a GREAT help!

Jake - Friday, May 9, 2008 1:27:16 AM

It works perfectly! Thanks

Daniel R. H. - Monday, May 26, 2008 12:10:10 AM

very very good u helped a lot.......

rao - Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:52:47 AM

thanks for this fix, just what I needed.

J - Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:08:55 PM

Cool! IE totally sucks btw..

Inv - Thursday, July 17, 2008 5:29:07 PM

Does this work only for ASP sites, or also for static sites?

Spencer - Monday, August 11, 2008 6:11:31 PM

Spencer,

That will work fine for any site, even static HTML sites.

Thanks
Stefan

stefan.sedich - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 6:25:09 AM

nice your meta tag finished my problems thans& regards

manoj kumar chouhan - Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:43:38 AM

thanks lot. its working fine. Its a issue for me for a very long time .

test - Tuesday, September 23, 2008 10:06:11 AM

Great. It really did a lot to me

Ajay - Friday, November 7, 2008 6:23:22 PM

What a nice tips !
I never knew, this was possible.

just.a.nerd - Friday, November 28, 2008 12:47:25 AM

ooh thanks so much.. your one of those great sharing people who without I would know nothing!!

amanda - Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:18:23 PM

Thanks Stefan, people helpers like you helps take the frustration out of people like me!!!

Alex - Wednesday, February 4, 2009 6:28:31 PM

Thank U so much,.,.,.its very much useful for me,.,.,.

Rajesh - Wednesday, February 18, 2009 2:57:33 PM

It didn't help in my case. Still flickers whenever page loads. (1 time per load)

Dinny - Wednesday, April 22, 2009 6:53:31 PM

Thank you Stefan! A year and a half after you posted this and it's still helping people.

Alice - Wednesday, August 12, 2009 7:51:49 PM

Thanks .. really helpful article.

Jazz - Monday, November 16, 2009 3:47:51 PM

I used these two tag but still I am getting the flickering issue.
I tried it on two different machine having installed IE6, It works on 1 machine fine and not on another.

Please give some feed back.

Thanks
Naveen

Naveen - Thursday, December 3, 2009 11:23:43 AM

Thanx, this works perfectly well for me.

Nosh - Thursday, July 8, 2010 9:30:03 PM

Works for me ... thanks

Nosh - Thursday, July 8, 2010 9:47:57 PM

Hi,
thanks,It is Works for me but In my Application I have Treeview control with IFrame Control, when I click a parent treenode the page is flickering while clicking on a childnode the page is not flickering it is displaying smoothly. please give me the solution.

mamatha v - Wednesday, September 28, 2011 12:27:05 PM

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