Fotiman - 9:03 pm on Jan 19, 2006 (gmt 0)

You could try using a conditional comment to include a stylesheet hack for IE. In other words, define your style as you have (for Firefox, Op, etc.), and then wrap your IE style in conditional comments.

As for the fix, adjust the top/left (or whatever you're using to specify the location of the absolutely positioned element) to compensate for the padding of the containing element. For example, if your containing element has a padding of 10px, then adjust the top/left to be -10px.

I haven't verified that will work, but I think it should. You may also need to adjust the z-index to make sure your absolutely positioned element is on top.