ASP-generated data for Excel not showing up in IE 6

[abeynens]

I'm having some wierd problems with my asp script. I'm trying to generate an Excel sheet from the dynamic ASP data. While the system works beautifully in Netscape and IE 5.5, IE 6.0 is doing something very strange.

I'm basically doing this:

1. print out some static html code
2. gather some data from a database, do some calculations
3. Response.Write the code for HTML tables containing the calculated data.

Simple enough, right? However, when I open it in IE 6.0, the static HTML code from part (1) shows up just fine, but not the tables generated from part (3)! I searched low-and-high all over google and ms knowledge base in case this was a bug in IE 6.0 or Excel, but to no avail.

I asked a friend with IE 6.0 to view the page, he got the same wierdness.

My system configuration: Win 2000 SP 2, Excel 2000, IE 6.0.26

Any ideas, clues?

 

[SashiRaveendran]

Interesting, have you tried validating the source from the browser?

There may be a HTML syntax error that may be causing the page to not render

 

[abeynens]

That would make sense, if the output didn't show up in either browser, but everything shows up just fine in IE 5.5 AND even in Netscape (which is known for it's pickiness when it comes to badly formatted HTML).

I did try validating the output with w3c's validator and everything came up clean.