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Memory is leaked when a drag action is performed on an image in Internet Explorer

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Symptom

Using Internet Explorer version 6.0 or later, and attempting to drag-and-drop an image may cause a memory increase with each drag-and-drop operation.  This increase will occur when you have an onmousemove event handler either on the image or on one of the parent elements of the image. The memory increase is more pronounced when the image is of the .PNG file type.

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Cause

Microsoft has confirmed this is a problem in the products listed in the Applies-To section.

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Resolution

Use one of the following workarounds to resolve this issue:


1) Return false from the onmousemove event handler.

OR

2) Return false from ondragstart event handler

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More information

For more information on the onmousemove and ondragstar events, please see the following documents:

onmousemove Event
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536947(VS.85).aspx


ondragstart Event
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536928(VS.85).aspx

 

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Keywords: kbrapidpub, kbnomt, KB2000269

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Article Info
Article ID : 2000269
Revision : 3
Created on : 6/24/2009
Published on : 6/24/2009
Exists online : False
Views : 385