Question: My website has always run smoothly with IE8, IE7, FF, Chrome and Safari. Now I'm testing it on IE9 and I'm experiencing a strange problem: in some pages, some tabular data renders incorrectly. 

The HTML source is correct and all, and the row giving the problem changes every time I refresh the page (to tell the truth, the problem itself appears only in some refresh, not all).

![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oSjuW.png)

Using the F12 Tool of IE, the table structure appears correct, there should be no empty TD after the TD containing M08000007448, but still it renders like this.

![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q1lix.png)

Moreover, if I use the F12 tool, with "select element by click" tool in the toolbar, and I try to click on the empty space between M08000007448 and 19 , it selects the TR, not a "hidden td".

I'm having this table rendering problem also in some other table in the application, anyone experiencing something like this? It happens only in IE9 :(

I don't know if it's important, but the page is made with ASPNET (webforms) and use Jquery and some other JS plugin.

I tried to save the page (with images) and open it in local with IE9, but the problem never occurs. (Of course I checked all the table structure and it's ok. Header and all rows have the eact same number of TD's, with the right number of colspan when necessary).

Answer: 
![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ShZ8n.png)I have exactly the same problem as well. you may want to read this <https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/649949/innerhtml-formatting-issues-on-very-large-tables>

YOu can remove the space inbetween td by using javascript if your html is returned from ajax, then from the response, you replace it with 

```
response_html = response_html.replace(/td>\s+<td/g,'td><td');
$('#table').html(response_html);

```
IE Blog mentions a new tool today called the Compat Inspector script to help troubleshoot IE 9 rendering incompatibility. It may help troubleshoot your issue.

<http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/04/27/ie9-compat-inspector.aspx>