benwatts.ca » bug http://benwatts.ca Designer and Frontend Developer in Ottawa, Canada Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:00:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Oh IE, How I Despise Thee http://benwatts.ca/2007/oh-ie-how-i-despise-thee/ http://benwatts.ca/2007/oh-ie-how-i-despise-thee/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:52:21 +0000 Ben http://benwatts.ca/blog/?p=4 Today have gained some new knowledge about one of the many quirks with Internet Explorer. Indeed, the problem I was having involved a relatively positioned container, and an element floating inside of it. Oh how that annoyed me ... gaaaah.Technorati Profile

]]> Today have gained some new knowledge about one of the many quirks with Internet Explorer. Indeed, the problem I was having involved a relatively positioned container, and an element floating inside of it. It displayed fine in the nice browsers, but it seemingly disappeared in Internet Explorer.

As it turned out, the problem was that IE6 was rendering the floated layer under the relative container layer. At least, that’s what I’m assuming it was doing — since I could click on a link in the floated element; the link was in the spot it should have been, which lead me to believe that it was under the relative container.

That one little line

position: relative;

really messed up floating elements throughout the site, and it wasn’t even supposed to be in the CSS. Indeed, I forgot to remove it, assuming it to be harmless.

Arg. Simply “arg”.

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