It's in Standards mode.
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Grevers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:26 PM
To: Hayley Kinash
Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org
Subject: Re: [css-d] Absolutely positioned div breaking out of parent in IE
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.
--
Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design
www.dramatic.co.nz
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