In any non-quirks mode doctype, content with position:relative within a block container with overflow: auto, scroll or hidden and a height shorter than its contents, will spill out past the bottom of the container.
Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Emmett Pickerel.
Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 | Reported on 9 September 2005.
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2 Posted by Dusty on 9 August 2006 | Permalink
I believe I have discovered a workaround for this bug. IE will behave correctly if you add 'position:relative' to the containing element that is using 'overflow:auto'. I believe this is an expectable workaround because setting 'position:relative' without setting the 'top' or 'left' attributes will not affect the page layout.
See an example of the suggested workaround at my blog post on the subject.
http://www.dustyreagan.com/2006/07/workaround-to-ies-overflow-auto-and.html
1 Posted by Trevor Ochocki on 7 March 2006 | Permalink
I just wanted to mention that I have encountered this for the width as well.