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In Internet Explorer positioned elements generate a new stacking context, starting with a z-index value of 0. Therefore z-index doesn't work correctly.
Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Tino Zijdel.
Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 beta 2 | Reported on 17 January 2006.
Posted by Tino Zijdel on 18 January 2006
2Indeed, somebody already pointed that link out to me (I didn't know of it's existance before, but I was aware of the bug itself but only recently found time myself to describe it). Fact is though that Aleksandar's description is rather lengthy and I wanted to provide a simple and straight-forward description of this bug with regards to IE.
Furthermore I find this bug rarely described and I feel that it deserves more exposure in the hope that Microsoft will fix it in the next release of IE.
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Posted by Gérard Talbot on 17 January 2006
1Most of the z-index related bugs happening on MSIE 6 have already been discovered and described at
Wrong z-index implementation bugs
http://www.aplus.co.yu/css/z-pos/index2.php
by Aleksandar Vacić