Comments on: CSS First-Aid for IE Peekaboo Bug

By: Brownspank

Brownspank — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:11:11 +0000

I agree: it’s important to make sure that your code is valid to begin with (particularly, specifying the correct DOCTYPE, in addition to what you mentioned), before applying any other bug fixes.

By: American Yak

American Yak — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:45:19 +0000

There is one other thing to note. When I run validation on my pages, sometimes I find that simple markup fixes (like tags that aren’t closed properly) can fix this problem. I just had a problem of this sort and ran validation and fixed a non-closing tag, and that fixed it.

By: Brian Blade

Brian Blade — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 11:25:58 +0000

Thank you for saving my time with the post. Was looking around and found this to be the perfect fix.

By: Release Schedule

Release Schedule — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:58:07 +0000

[...] with Microsoft's encouragement to use IE8, which works remarkably well. However, I'll look into this possible fix tomorrow, although I don't have high hopes: I suspect they are just hasLayout triggers for the new [...]

By: marco

marco — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:11:23 +0000

un tres bon article, je pense que cela va m’aider merci !

By: Saibot

Saibot — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:04:54 +0000

Thanks for sharing this fix..

By: Mike McNally

Mike McNally — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:08:44 +0000

I need to type in a blog post of my own once I isolate a reproducible demo, but there are variants of the IE7 peek-a-boo problem that are definitely NOT fixed by giving either the affected block or any container blocks the “hasLayout” property. I appreciate of course that resources like this are available, but in case you’re reading this and your floated block continues to randomly disappear even though you’ve tried “min-width” or “min-height” or “zoom”, know that you’re not alone.

By: Theolonious

Theolonious — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:08:35 +0000

Just adding my thanks to this long list…

min-width + IE7 = harmony :)

By: emptywalls

emptywalls — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:26:26 +0000

wow im glad i found this! I was able to fix divs that were using jquery slideup/slidedown with these lines of code.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:26:23 +0000

What can I say? Many thanks for supplying this simple but very effective piece of code – it works a treat.

When I first noticed this bug I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. It was also quite difficult to find out what was causing the problem as I didn’t know it was called the “peekaboo bug” – I have been searching using a mash up of phrases including “wordpress ie7 text disappears when scrolling” and I found “peekaboo” mentioned on another post. It was only when I searched for “ie peekaboo bug” that I found your post.

If you add some more wording to your page you may find yourself getting a load more traffic!

Anyway, thanks again for the solution. It works a treat.