In Internet Explorer you won't be able to view all of an absolutely positioned div because IE doesn't 'create' a scrollbar.
Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Mark Janssen.
Explorer 5-6 Windows | Reported on 11 May 2005.
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2 Posted by Kaiser Uwe on 18 May 2005 | Permalink
This has discussed in detail last year already. Even Big John himself sent two comments.
http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/40735
1 Posted by Martin Mes on 14 May 2005 | Permalink
Could also be repaired with the famous Holly Hack. See: http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/unscrollable.html