On 2/20/08, Hayley Kinash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got an absolutely positioned div inside a relatively positioned div, > but in IE the child div is breaking out of the parent and uses the body as > its parent. There's a width and a height on the parent div, and all divs > above the parent have position:relative and a width. It behaves as expected > in FF and Safari. > > I can't post the site URL right now, so I'll post code. Thanks for any > help! > > <div id="container"> > <div id="wrapper"> > <div id="menu"> > (inside is Macromedia's mm_menu, which is what is jumping out of the > parent div, but is absolutely positioned) > </div> > </div> > </div> > > #container { > margin-left: auto; > margin-right: auto; > width: 761px; > background-color:#ffffff; > position:relative; > } > > #wrapper { > width:577px; > float:right; > text-align:left; > position:relative; > } > > #menu { > position:relative; > width:538px; > height:30px; > text-align:left; > padding-left:10px; > padding-right:29px; > background-color:#318b4d; > } > Is your doctype one that will trigger quirks mode rendering in IE? >From memory, getting the parent wrong for absolute positioned elements was an IE5 / 5.5 bug, and might have only been fixed for standards mode in IE6.
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