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.
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The website I'm developing suddenly stopped working properly. The images on my Homepage appear sliced and in weird places (however when inspecting source and hovering over certain elements, the highlighted content seems to be in the right place), some hover on effects don't work and some text doesn't render.
Everything works properly in all other browsers except for Google Chrome. I cannot think of any other thing I've updated in the source code than executing svginjection plugin.
I uploaded my backed up files that used to work before, but the problem still occurs. It doesn't show up on every single computer, just on some (and I've checked it on multiple machines, both - Mac and Windows).
Just to clarify, I did clear the cache, I did check in the Incognito mode, I did restart my computer. None of these helped. I'm also 80% sure that problem only occurs on computers, on which this website was previously opened (the pattern I noticed after making around 10 tests at work).
Thanks for any help
Aight, so after going through all my files, trying to disable multiple options, etc... Everything is fixed now. If you do have similar problem, go through your css files and disable all webkit powered transforms and transitions, cause apparently enough is enough and if you have too many, Chrome just won't handle it. I managed to still reuse some of them, so... Must have caused some glitch in the matrix and that's why it all got messed up. For weirdly positioned images check z-index of parent container.
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.
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 :/
I am a web developer for a small company and we recently noticed a strange graphical issue with our website that only appears for users using Google chrome on windows 7 and 8.
The graphical issue occurs when our banner images fade in and fade out, all of the content below the navigation UI flashes white.
This issue is resolved if chrome is run in windows 8 mode though not if hardware acceleration is disabled.
Weirdly enough something else that fixes the bug is opening the developer tools window by inspecting an element, very unusual.
Is there any kind of fix I may have to add to the pages CSS similar to styling specifically for Internet Explorer?
Try to move the following script include right down to the bottom of your page, right above the last </body> tag.
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ecogrid.co.uk/js/magentothem/bannersequence/jquery.sequence-min.js"></script>
It works for me, at least in the browser. I think the issue was related to the order of the code and perhaps the conflicting of jquery fade effects in the menu and the sequential slider.
This is non related but... good practice. Whilst your at it you may want to move many other 'render blocking elements' down below the fold as well, this is better for load time optimization. But of course for more info see: https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/BlockingJS
I am running into a random issue in a website that I am working. This website contains many images and some images are 1Mb in size or bigger. The site also uses some CSS3 tricks, like 3D rotations.
Since I added this 3D CSS stuff, I noticed a problem in Google Chrome where some random areas in the website are not rendered.
This is a screen-shoot of how the site should be rendered, the green lines are because I've enabled the "Composited render layer borders" on chrome://flags:
And this is how it get rendered when the issue happens:
This white squares appear randomly and they can disappear or reappear in another place if the scroll the website. I also noticed that this problem is more common in lower-end computers so I my guess is that somehow Chrome is running out of GPU memory.
Why this problem happens? and is the any workaround for it (besides disabling the 3d CSS)?
In case it helps, this is the website:
http://colocation.cubo.cc/cheetos/masterbrand/
Update:
I raised a issue for the Chrome team.
I couldn't reproduce this problem in the Chrome Canary.
It was a Chrome Issue, and its fixed now:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=121779
I can only congratulate the Chrome team for pushing bugfixes so fast, I wish IE was like this.