Hey all,

I'm working on an application where the page layout is essentially a bunch of absolutely positioned containers. There is a header, sidebar and content area. The content area has its own header and footer which are fixed on the screen. The main part of the content area scrolls but nothing else does.

So, we are using jQuery dialog for popup boxes and in IE7 with this new layout when i open a dialog the rest of my content in the background vanishes. I'm left with the page header and the footer of the content area and that's it.

In Firefox and believe it or not IE6 it works fine.

We are using ie7.js in ie6 though to make things not suck.

Anyone have any clue why opening a dialog in jquery would screw up absolute positioning and make stuff vanish?