IE6 + IE7 CSS problem with overflow: hidden; - position: relative; combo.
- by googletorp
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 class="infobox">
<h4>Title 2</h4>
<p>Teaser 2</p>
</div>
</div>
</li>
<li class="last">
<div class="slide">
<img src="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/content/binary/lolcats-funny-pictures-leroy-jenkins.jpg" />
<div class="infobox">
<h4>Title 3</h4>
<p>Teaser 3</p>
</div>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="column-2">
...
</div>
<div class="column-3">
...
</div>
</body>
</html>
I've tracked down that it is the
ul {
position: relative;
}
on the ul element that is causing the overflow: hidden not to work, but why that is, I don't know. Also this is needed to make the slider javascript work using the left attribute on the ul to slide it. Any ideas as to how you can fix this is most welcome.
