position: static?
Published on 12th September 2008 Estimated Reading Time: 1 minuteCSS positioning seems to be becoming a nightmare when it comes to IE6 support. While I am aware that the likes of 37signals have stopped making their products work with it, there remain plenty of people who stick or are stuck with the old retainer. I am one of the latter because of the continued use of Windows 2000 at my place of work, though a Windows Vista roll-out has been mooted for a while now. If nothing else, it keeps me in the loop for any inconsistencies that afflict the display of my websites. Positioning of an element within the browser window rather than within its parent element is one of these, and it looks as if specifying a position of relative in a stylesheet is part of this. Apparently, it could be down to its non-triggering of IE's haslayout property. Though it might be a hack, I have found that static positioning has helped. While I'll continue to keep my eye out for a better solution if it exists, the static option seems to have no detrimental effect in IE7, IE8, Firefox, Safari, Chrome or Opera.