Chrome content/footer white spaces bug - html

I am developing website and have a strange bug that appears only on Chrome. I have a latest Chrome version and as I googled it seems to be old bug on older versions of Chrome(v18 - v20). Basically what happens: browser loads page, but on the bottom of the screen I have white spaces/rectangles instead of content or footer. Once I hover it - the rest of the content is loaded. Any ideas, links or solutions would be great.
I tried to work with this around with setting height to auto, but this didn't help. Also tried to load page in incognito to make sure it is not caused by any of the extensions I use, but this as well had no affect in resolving the issue.
Another solution that I think of is to set interval to re-trigger CSS in some milliseconds the page is loaded, but this is not the best solution and there should definitely be some other, more optimal, way to solve this.
P.S.:
All other browsers work like a charm.
Thanks in advance for the help.

In my case issue was with fade-in animation set on whole content. As website owner decided to skip the animation to save time. No further digging was done.

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Image overflows outside its container on certain actions (Firefox)

I'm using Firefox and I have noticed a simple problem that when I'm using a image slider sometimes images overflow out of their container to the top. But it's only happening when I'm using Firefox on Chrome everything works fine, any ideas?
I have tried adding overflow:hidden, but it didn't help in this case.
If this is only happening on certain browsers it might be because you haven't done a reset on your CSS values.
You might want to check out this post and see if you're facing the same issues. If so you could add a reset.css file to your project to fix the problems. For more information, please check out CSS Reset.

Repaint time from 0 to 8ms, Chrome still not scrolling smoothly

First of all, let me explain what I mean by "smooth scrolling" here. When I rotate the mouse wheel by one "step", e.g. on Google Search results page, the page gradually moves up/down - the transition from the "before scroll" to "after scroll" states takes some time and is nicely animated. However, whenever I create a long page in html and try to scroll just one "step", there is no animation or transition on scroll - the page just instantly jumps few lines up or down. The average repaint time of my page takes about 5ms, with peaks up to 8ms, so I know repaint time is not the cause of that.
I know that such smooth scrolling can be achieved without any scripting, as for example the site http://www.thecssninja.com/ scrolls super-smooth on Chrome even with js disabled.
Why does Chrome choose not to scroll my page smoothly? How do I achieve smooth scroll without depending on JS, as CSS Ninja manages to?
PS Firefox does not seem to have that issue. How do I tell Chrome with my html/css that I'd like my page to scroll smoothly?
Either you can enable chrome smooth scrolling manually, which does not make sense for website development.
Or you can use some of the libraries to achieve that.
https://github.com/fatlinesofcode/jquery.smoothwheel
Sadly for chrome you cannot enable smooth scrolling through HTML, CSS or JS.
I know you're not after JS solutions, but I've never seen anything guarantee this outside of JavaScript, and karan's link above is certainly the smoothest example I've seen of doing this.
(Proviso: I'm using Chrome for Windows, not Linux. Apparently, that may make a difference.)
I use Chrome myself, and I always get the pages scrolling in jumps, not smoothly--even the pages you described as 'smooth' above step for me several lines at a time, including the Google results page. There used to be a flag available for this in Chrome, which allowed you to turn on smooth scrolling -- it could be accessed through Chrome's flags (go to chrome://flags/ to see those that are available) -- but it's now only available for the Linux Chrome platform. It may be available again in the future, but for now at least, it isn't. Hopefully, though, these experimental features will eventually find their way into Chrome, and render this whole issue obsolete.
Firefox, on the other hand, scrolls in nice smooth steps no matter what page I'm on--including my own local info pages which have almost no styling at all. IE scrolls smoothly, though not nearly as nicely as Firefox, while Opera behaves like Chrome, and steps through the pages several lines at a time.
I'm pretty sure that this is an issue to do with the browser, and not something that you can currently remedy with styling alone. Sorry I couldn't be of more help, but if you're doing this for a client, at least you'll be able to explain the issue.
I would highly recommend finding an alternate solution, but I have managed to find a solution to this exact problem for one of my websites. Akin to just using glitter glue to solve a leak in a wall, I discovered that including an iframe for a Google map on the page (even if it's hidden) somehow added in smooth scrolling. I have no idea how it works, but for some bizarre reason it does.
As I said though, I highly recommend not doing this, as its an extra (and sometimes lengthy) request made on each page to include an element most users won't ever see.

IE9 randomly? not displaying content, failing links, etc?? CSS?

Background info: I'm working on a public facing website for our company. developing in VS2012, asp.net and vb.net, using some JS, some JQuery, and a decent amount of CSS.
Everything was looking great in our internal testing, until someone checked from home, where they only had IE 9. Suddenly, big chunks of text within expanding panels weren't being displayed, the bottom of the page was missing in most cases, some links that call javascript functions don't do anything... It's so random that the only reason I think they're connected is that it only happens in IE9 (or probably before, though no one has looked.)
I tried setting the standards mode to edge in the web.config. (tried setting it to IE10 as well, just to try) I've played with changing some positioning, heights in px instead of %, relative to fixed positioning, tried inserting the html5shiv, removing the gradients... nothing has changed. Everything displays correctly, until it doesn't display at all. When I was starting to see and research this last week, I thought I'd found an article somewhere that said there were limits on the CSS tags you could use in a page for IE9, but that number was WAY higher than anything I'm using, including both what's on the page directly, and incorporating the .css file. The only other clue is that it looks like at the bottom, where the missing stuff starts, I also lose the gradient from the page background (so just a block of all white, however if I play with the size of the window, sometimes I can get this block to slide down, and I can see another line or two that was originally hidden...
Has anyone had issues like this? The site works perfect in chrome, ff, IE10 and 11, several Linux browsers, opera, safari, from macs, pcs, and Linux boxes. everything except this old IE 9.
HELP?
Just a little hack fix I found, if anyone comes across this question looking for similar answers... I created a new css file implemented when IE9 browsers are detected, and I extended the min-height for the content of pages until every page displayed... the drawback is that on those longer pages, if the content isn't expanded, the footer still lies several scrolls down... but this only happens on the very content-lengthy pages, so while it isn't ideal, I guess it's good enough, if someone's ok with using outdated browser technology :/

Strange black blocks appearing in Chrome

For some reason, black boxes are displaying in random spaces in Chrome (latest build).
Some of these boxes are appearing outside of the main container, whereas some are appearing inline, covering content blocks. They appear randomly, usually after scrolling, and will often disappear when opening the inspector, hovering over elements, or scrolling down and back up.
For reference, there are some animations, box-shadows (which have been disabled with no luck), linear gradients, and position: fixed elements on the page, although this is not an issue with browsers other than Chrome.
This has been widely reported in user testing, although I have not been able to conjure up a fix. I am not sure if it is a CPU or graphics card issue, as the site is relatively lightweight and I am browsing with a new laptop with 16gb ram. My old Mac Mini, with 4gb of ram, does not produce this issue.
Any pointers would be most appreciated.
Update: This was a bug in Chrome and was fixed: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=142038
eddz filed the issue at crbug.com/new and over 40 people starred the ticket to follow along. It led to a few separate fixes in Chrome by the engineering team.
I had this issue with a website that was using transformZ (0) to force GPU rendering. When I removed this style the issue disappeared
This isn't an answer, but if you are able to somehow reproduce it maybe later on down the road:
Make a copy of the page locally, or anywhere, set the base href to the main domain, now start removing css links and js scripts from the bottom to the top until you don't experience the behaviour anymore, if you get to that point then the last script/stylesheet you removed is the culprit.
If you find the culprit file, now try finding the culprit line/section.
If you don't get to that point, it may be the browser, but it doesn't sound like it is.
It may also be linked between scripts/stylesheets and/or accidentally inherited.
We had experienced this weird blocks too on our website. In past we was using transitions, transitions was reproducing another bug "weird lines" randomly appeared on page and dissapear during scroll.
Now we start using transformX-Y, may be in some places Z too. And we have got this hell bloack blocks.
It seems something wrong in Chrome with transfom + transition animations. May be this bug appear when too much blocks animated at one time?
FF works fine.
I encountered these same boxes. For me, the problem was that I was using mp4 videos, which are deprecated in chrome, instead of webm videos.
I think is related to the GPU I had the same issue on my website. And it stopped happening when I turned on the Metal Rendering flag.
My website renders back bgs randomly while scrolling. It is really heavy on videos and animations and looks like chrome has so little GPU available that graphic intensive website doesn't work correctly on blink. I noticed that when chrome used webkit those issues didn't happen.
I this is a blink render issue.

Why is this layout broken in Chrome?

This site: http://www.whsc.ie/ uses a jquery lightbox style plugin which seems to be breaking the layout in Google's Chrome Browser. When viewed in Chrome, the header of the site is about 30 pixels taller than it should be.
When inspecting the source elements it appears to be caused by some hidden elements that are used by the colorbox jQuery plugin.
I've tried everything I can think of to figure this out and fix the problem but to no avail.
Many thanks in advance.
My Bad!
It seems it's actually a Wordpress bug that only appears when a user is logged in. I kept seeing it on the browsers on my own machine because they were all logged in, but when I went to a different machine the bug wasn't visble.
Thanks for the replies though, much appreciated.