Jörn, >Its all a bit tricky: Those portlets are enclosed in about 6 layers of >tables (gah) and IE doesn't even let me start the debugger, it simply >fails completely to display anything at all.
I really think it's the tables that are your problem. IE has some issues trying to manipulate elements that have relative positioning that are inside multiple table tags. One thing that *might* help is if you define your tables w/a "table-layout: fixed;" style. You'll need to explicitly set all the column widths though. This will generally allow IE to start rendering the table immediately--so it might fix the issue of you manipulating the DOM elements in the tables. For more info: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/tablela yout.asp -Dan