position:absolute next to a float may disappear in IE
filed in Web Design on Nov.20, 2008
In IE6 or IE7 if there is a floated layout and you have an absolute-positioned div in the mix sometimes it just won’t show up.
SOLUTION:
One easy way to fix the bug is to add an extra dummy <div> to “separating” the position:absolute from the float in the source code (either being between them, or wrapping one of them).
July 8th, 2009 on 7:44 pm
Thank you so much!!! I tried every peek-a-boo fix under the sun, thinking that’s what it was, and have been struggling with this for 5 hours.
Yay for the empty div fix!
July 31st, 2009 on 2:21 am
thanks for the help. what a POS.
August 7th, 2009 on 11:38 am
Thank you so much!
I’ve been scratching my head for hours over this stupid thing. I ended up using tag instead of a . Appeared to have the same effect.
August 30th, 2009 on 9:08 pm
thanks man
September 23rd, 2009 on 4:23 am
Oh boy, that took me 2 hrs to figure that out.
Thank you so much!