Question

I recently came across an IE7 only bug that I thought I’d share so when I come to this site 6 months from now to figure out the same thing, I’ll have it on hand.

I believe the easiest way to recreate this bug would be the following html in a page with a declared doctype (it works correctly in ‘quirks mode’ / no-doctype):

<div style='overflow: auto; height: 150px;'>     <div style='position: relative;'>[...]</div> </div> 

In IE7, the outer div is a fixed size and the inner div is relatively positioned and contains more content (assuming the inner div causes an overflow). In all other browsers, this seems to work as expected.

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Answer 1

The easiest fix would be to add position: relative; to the outer div. This will make IE7 work as intended.

(See: http://rowanw.com/bugs/overflow_relative.htm).

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