In every browser I've used, except ie8, an absolutely positioned element can be positioned according to the closest parent with relative positioning.
The below code shows two divs inside a table. The top div has position: relative, however, the nested, absolutely positioned element does not respect its boundaries (in ie8, it gets positioned at the bottom of the page instead of the bottom of the parent div).
Does anybody know a fix for this?
<style>
#top {
position: relative;
background-color: #ccc;
}
#position_me {
background-color: green;
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
}
#bottom {
background-color: blue;
height: 100px;
}
</style>
<table>
<tr>
<td><div id="top"> Div with id="top"
<div id="position_me"> Div with id="position me" </div>
</div>
<div id="bottom"> Div with id="bottom"
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p>
</div></td>
</tr>
</table>
Declare a doctype. I'd encourage you to use the HTML5 doctype:
You can also use
This fixed my problem!
That's becuase you're not using the document type. And IE working in the "quircks" mode.
Try this doctype:
i´d always use the HTML5 doctype, but in my case the only problem was that the parent element needed "position:relative;" specifically set. after that, it worked perfectly fine.
Add this:
It forces IE8 to compute position correctly in quirks mode. There are many ways to get it:
See http://haslayout.net/haslayout
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