IE7 plays peekaboo to a new level
This post was written 6 years ago.
Fri, 01 Sep 2006
The first site i've had to fix for Internet Explorer 7 is our very own www.netsightmcc.co.uk (Netsight Metropolitan Colocation Centre - the website for our Bristol datacentre). It appeared that in IE7 RC1, none of the content of anything other than the homepage was visible. We were only alerted to this by a potential customer phoning up for more information, which the site seemed to be lacking.
The reason for this appeared to be an even more aggressive version of the so-called peekaboo bug found in IE6, although this site works fine in IE6. By applying a (hack) of a 1% height to a div that contained the missing content, it now appears to be working OK in IE7 RC1. I haven't filtered this hack out into an IE7 specific stylesheet yet, but will if I spot any undesired side effects. Maybe there's a better way of fixing this? Time will tell, or maybe a stranger will.
The reason for this appeared to be an even more aggressive version of the so-called peekaboo bug found in IE6, although this site works fine in IE6. By applying a (hack) of a 1% height to a div that contained the missing content, it now appears to be working OK in IE7 RC1. I haven't filtered this hack out into an IE7 specific stylesheet yet, but will if I spot any undesired side effects. Maybe there's a better way of fixing this? Time will tell, or maybe a stranger will.
This post was written 6 years ago, which in internet time is really, really old. This means that what is written above, and the links contained within, may now be obsolete, inaccurate or wildly out of context, so please bear that in mind :)
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