Comments on: IE6 resize bug (position: relative becomes fixed)

By: Jasper

Jasper — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:12:17 +0000

@Michael, just use a container div instead of body, then it’ll work.

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By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:21:48 +0000

BEWARE: this fix may have side affects to existing sites! My site wasn’t able to show thickbox popups any more in IE6, after I had added position:relative to the body element. So it is’t the solution for me… :(

By: Wolf Oliver Abbas

Wolf Oliver Abbas — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:52:50 +0000

I can not believe it. Your post is three years old and the bug is still not fixed. I got the very same problem. Thank you for the solution!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:57:23 +0000

All these bugs are a pain in the bum!
it’s good to be informed about them.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:44:13 +0000

Thanks very much for posting this — so simple to fix, but so very frustrating if you don’t know how! I can’t understand how an operation the size of Microsoft can still put out a product that fails to meet basic standards. mindblowing. Cheers!

By: Clinton Montague

Clinton Montague — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:47:14 +0000

Thanks for posting the answer to this problem, it would have caused a lot of brain-ache if I didn’t stumble across this post. I’ll be writing a post about this problem in the near future linking back here :)

Thanks again

By: Juan Araya

Juan Araya — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:09:08 +0000

Emil !!!

THANK YOU! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!!!

Had noticed this issue in some websites but was not aware I was a victim of it. A client just sent me an email complaining about this.

Thanks again for your excellent documentation.

By: PavelGee

PavelGee — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:58:34 +0000

Thanks so much! Being a non-professional, and facing so many bugs in IE at the onset of the project left me desperate at times.
Lucky I came across your page!

By: wingMan

wingMan — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:48:23 +0000

Thanks for posting Bro!

This has been driving me nuts for the last month.

By: Farzan

Farzan — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:12:44 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

This hack saved my neck… my customer was killing me and I didn’t know how I could fix it.

By: jason

jason — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:38:21 +0000

DUDE. i have been freaking out with this pathetic ie6 bug for so long now…bashing my head against a mined spiked poisoned wall for ages trying to understand why setting position to relative or absolute was behaving as fixed in my scrollable div.

the solution was simply to set the containing element to position:relative. so simple yet impossible to guess.

thanks man. you’ve really saved my life as i was about to go jump in front of a semi-truck just to finally achieve peace of mind.

By: Leonardo A. Souza

Leonardo A. Souza — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:53:20 +0000

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you a lot! You save the time (and the live) for a desperate brazilian developer!

By: Roman

Roman — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:45:17 +0000

Thank you very much for your research and post! It seems to work.