DIV with overflow:auto and a 100% wide table

Question

I hope someone might be able to help me here. I\'ve tried to simplify my example as best I can.

I have an absolutely positioned DIV, which for this example I\'ve made fi

Answer 1

If it's the body tag that insists on having the horizontal scroll (I guess because I have child elements set to 100%) you can add this to your CSS to fix the problem in IE7 (or 8 compatibility mode):

html{overflow-x:hidden;}