[thelist] Mac/IE layer positioning issue

[Bill Haenel]

Just getting back to my Email now...

Actually, I think this was the "well-known" (to everyone but me, anyway!)
Mac bug. It was coming from 0,0 of the table, not the page.

The function was being called from the first cell in a nested table. As a
result, the script dropped divs at absolute positions, and the position was
counted from 0,0 of the NESTED table in which the function was called.

The solution was to push the function call up to the first line of the body.
Then it counted from 0,0 of the page as expected. Lesson learned.

Took me forever to figure this out, only because it was only occurring only
in IE5 for Mac, and no others. I was not aware of this bug.

BH


> >Never mind - figured it out. IE on the Mac was the only browser that was
> >counting pixels from the point where the function was called
> (i.e. inside
> >the table) instead of from 0,0 of the window. I did not know this would
> >happen, but to fix it, I moved the function call to the first
> line of the
> >body and it then worked just fine.
>
> ??? Could you please explain more? There is a well-known IE5Mac bug that
> causes absolutely positioned elements placed in a table to be
> misplaced. I
> think (but have not tested) that their position is counted from the 0 0
> coordinate of the table, not of the document, as should happen with
> position: absolute