Weird aggravating IE bug

It should only take a few min from a CSS savvy

[picophd]

Hello,

Will you please tell me why is the link at the bottom right of the content layer INVISIBLE in Internet Explorer 6, Windows? Check the source, the link is called test2.htm. You cannot see it in IE, but you can see it in Firefox. Why on earth is it invisible in IE?

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[edited by: DrDoc at 3:07 pm (utc) on Nov. 22, 2004]

[Guilt_Puppy]

Add a position: relative; to your style "next". It will be meaningless in normal browsers, but it changes some of IE's internal behavior (specifically the way it handles floated elements) and makes it categorically less screwy.

I wish I could explain better than that why it works,
but there's so little information about why these bugs are here in the first place, all I can say is "it works."

[positioniseverything.net ]
describes this and many other common fixes to IE bugs, and also has a few more bits and pieces of info on just
what IE is generally messing up, and a few nebulous clues as to why, too.

[picophd]

Man, thank you SO much. It did work. I can't believe this. You know what? I know why there are all these bugs in IE. It's so we can HATE its guts more and more, and promote some real browsers that observe web standards, accessibility, and have some respect for users and developers, like Firefox and Opera. It annoys the heck out of me really to always bump into the retarded behaviors of IE when I'm trying to comply with web standards!