When you use Windows Internet Explorer 7 or Internet Explorer 6 to visit a Web page that is hosted on a secure Web site (HTTPS), you unexpectedly receive the following security warning:
This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to display the nonsecure items?
Back to the top
This problem occurs if the Web page script calls the
removeChild() method to delete a DIV element that references a background image.
Back to the top
To work around this problem, use one of the following methods.
Back to the top
Method 1
Use the
outerHTML property to delete the DIV element, as in the following example:
document.getElementById('myDiv').outerHTML=" "
Back to the top
Method 2
Put the background-image into a cascading style sheets file, as in the following example:
<style type="text/css">
{ background-image: url(image.jpg); }
</style>
Back to the top