To add to what others have said, another issue related to this may be the z-index bug, which can affect the layering of positioned elements in IE7 and lower. Google z-index bug.
Rick Gordon ------------------ On 7/30/10 at 12:25 PM -0700, Angela French wrote in a message entitled "[css-d] absolute positioning": >I'm being driving nuts by absolute positioning rendering between IE and FF. I >just want to confirm what I think is correct about absolute positioning. My >understanding is that an absolutely position element positions itself relative >to its parent container. If the parent has not positioning, then it positions >itself absolutely relative to the grandparent container, and so forth, up to >the <body>. Is this correct? > >If so, do both IE and FF follow this? -- ___________________________________________________ RICK GORDON EMERALD VALLEY GRAPHICS AND CONSULTING ___________________________________________________ WWW: http://www.shelterpub.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/