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IE6 + IE7 CSS problem with overflow: hidden; - position: relative; combo

Asked 2010-03-08T16:55:26.120
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So I have created a slider for a homepage, that slides some images with a title and teaser text using jQuery. Everything works fine, and I went to check IE and found that IE 6 and 7 kills my slider css completely. I can't figure out why, but for some reason I can't hide the non active slides with overflow: hidden; I've tried tweaking the css back and forth, but haven't been able to figure out what's causing the problem.

I've recreated the problem in a more isolated html page.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="da" lang="da" dir="ltr">
  <head>
    <style>
      body {
       width: 900px;
      }
      .column-1 {
        width: 500px;
        float: left;
      }
      .column-2 {
        width: 200px;
        float: left;
      }
      .column-3 {
        width: 200px;
        float: left;
      } 
      ul {
        width: 2000px;
        left: -499px;
        position: relative;
      }

      li {
        list-style: none;
        display: block;
        float: left;
      }

      .item-list {
        overflow: hidden;
        width: 499px;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="column-1">
      <div class="item-list clearfix">
        <ul>
          <li class="first">
            <div class="node-slide">
              <img src="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/content/binary/lolcats-funny-pictures-leroy-jenkins.jpg" />
              <div class="infobox">
                <h4>Title 1</h4>
                <p>Teaser 1</p>
              </div>
            </div>
          </li>
          <li>
            <div class="slide">
              <img src="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/content/binary/lolcats-funny-pictures-leroy-jenkins.jpg" />
              <div
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It is a well-known bug in IE6 and IE7. To solve it, you need to add position:relative to the container. Since in your case body is the container, I'd suggest you add a div directly under the body and give it position:relative. It should solve your problem.

answered 2010-04-16T14:28:12.920

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