[thelist] Invisible IE content: tables & divs

Sarah Sweeney poohbear at designshift.com
Fri Jan 23 10:16:04 CST 2004


> When I put tabled content into the main (absolutely positioned) div of a
> page, the other content in that div which is not within the table
> somehow gets covered up by the <hX> tags or something. Doesn't happen if
> there's no table. Honestly, I'm not even sure exactly what it does, but
> it's pretty awful. Only happens in IE. Not Moz.
> 
> http://tonyczappia.com/comcal/index/01/26/2004/0/0

Bill,

I'd suggest making sure your page validates:
<http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A//tonyczappia.com/comcal/index/01/26/2004/0/0>

However, take a look at the IE6 peek-a-boo bug, which I believe might be 
what's causing your problem:
<http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/peekaboo.html>

Don't you just love IE in all it's quirkiness? :P

Sarah


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