D3 function crashes IE11

I'm using a D3 function to draw some text on screen

I narrowed down the problem to this function:

.append("text")

when I call that function many times, IE11 crashes with:

Unhandled exception at 0x62E06A9C (mshtml.dll) in iexplore.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000028.

offending function is:

CSVGTextElement::GetBoundingRectImpl

here a snapshot of the output from the Windows Debugger. It shows what happen when the process iexplore.exe crashes

removing the calls to that .append("text") "solves" the problem, IE11 doesn't crash anymore. However, I need such function to draw some text on screen

This looks like a null pointer dereference bug in IE11. Check if you are using the latest IE version first, maybe it is already fixed. If not you should report it to MS and wait for them to fix it, you can do it here - https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/Feedback