[thelist] "Repeating Text" in IE6

Sarah Sweeney mr.sanders at designshift.com
Wed Oct 6 07:55:03 CDT 2004


> I've got a CSS layout using absolute-positioning.  That is, the side
> columns are absolutely-positioned, while the main content area appears
> within the flow of the document with padding applied to the top to
> make room for the absolutely-positioned header (which comes almost
> last in the code).
> 
> The problem I've been experiencing is that several users report that
> the main content text repeats over itself into a big blob when
> scrolling down the page, ONLY when they follow a link to our site from
> an e-mail message.  I have no reports of this problem from people who
> follow other web links or who type in the address manually.
> 
> These people are using a variety of Windows operating systems,
> including W2K, ME, and XP.  I run W2K and have been unable to
> duplicate this error.  The browser being used is IE6.
> 
> I had one person tell me that this link might help:
> 
> http://positioniseverything.net/explorer/dup-characters.html
> 
> But I've checked and eliminated this from the list of possible causes.
> For one thing the problem it describes isn't what I've been
> encountering, and for another thing the layout doesn't have any
> floated elements.  So there must be something else.

I see you haven't had any replies yet. If you haven't found a solution 
yet, do you have a url we could take a look at?

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