I was unable to see any pages within a pretty standard JSP web app that contained a (properly formed!) non-empty script element, e.g. within the element of an xhtml-doctype page. I just kept getting a blank page in both IE6 & IE7 although the page had loaded and the source was viewable. Putting the script element into the did nothing - the only way round it was to turn it into an empty-body HTML4 type tag, e.g. .

Just another example of poor IE standards compliance I guess, and really annoying, not only to track down but because of the solution!!