position:absolute reduces width in IE7 - width

I'm trying to position a div inside a div.
the outer div has a fixed width and heigt, the inner div contains some text, has a fixed height and automatically fits to the width of the outer div (default behavior, without "width: 100%").
When I now add position:relative to the outer div and position:absolute + bottom: 0 to the inner div, I just want the inner div to move to the bottom of the outer div, but keep the same width it had before. This works fine in most browsers (Internet Explorer 8+, Firefox, Opera), but in IE7 it reduces the width to fit the text inside the inner div.
Is there a clean and valid way to prevent this different behaviour in IE7?
You can see an example here: http://www.loud.fm/tmp (I'm talking about the black box at the inner bottom of the featured-slider-box.) Thank you in advance! :)


Since your already using absolute positioning to lock it to the bottom why not add
left: 0;
right: 0;
to your CSS as well.


When you perform position: absolute, you are breaking some of the relationship. In the example you mention, you'll notice that div of the black box belongs to an li element in which the li element has a static width set (of 590px). You could dynamically set the width of the inner div to that of the outer by using javascript on load to handle all situations. Otherwise, set a static width size that matches that of the parent.


I had a pretty similar issue with Div's being changed in width by IE7. A simple style tag solved it for me:
min-width: 100%;
After hours of trial and error, this was all it took. Hope it helps!

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Every now and then I have this problem, and a big part of solving the problem is identifying the element that's the culprit. I just came up with this little jQuery script you can run in your browser's JavaScript console to find which elements are wider than the body width, causing that annoying scrollbar to appear.
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if( $(this).width() > $('body').width()) {
console.log("Wide Element: ", $(this), "Width: ", $(this).width());
}
});

You Can hide the horizontal overflow using css code (and then the horizontal scroll bar will never show up again):
body{
overflow-x:hidden;
}

Link to the page? Chances are there is some kind of element inside the wrapper that is breaking past the browser window.
Often times it is with padding and widths. Keep in mind if you have an element inside the wrapper that is set to say 100% width and you add padding on the left and right of 20px. It will create a horizontal scrollbar because the element is 100% + 40 px.
So if you are building liquid elements inside a div you would do it like this:
#liquidelement {
width:96%;
padding:0 2%;
}
You need to subtract the padding from the widths, also always use percentages for the padding when doing layouts because it's fluid, not fixed.

Often times it's a matter of a single element which can cause the page to get the horizontal scrollbar. That can be a pain, but you can easily find out the offending element by this simple css trick
* {border:1px solid red}
You can also add the following properties if the element is hidden.
opacity: 1 ; visibility: visible;
Demo :https://codepen.io/i_abhi/pen/eYzpBjr

2020
If any of you using Boostrap and came across this question then here's the answer.
for Bootstrap Users
Wrap your .row with .container or .container-fluid and it will solve the issue.

Referring to your issue, the code appears to be correct. However, some elements inside might also affect the exact width and overflow your boundary. Might check all inside elements as well. You can use Firebug or Chrome Inspect Element.

No more than three steps are required here:
Scroll the horizontal bar to the right where you can see the extra empty padding.
Open an Inspect Element
This is done by holding ctrl + shift then pressing i
Scroll over all your elements, the element with the extra padding should protrude your pages content into that empty space created.

You can Use
#wrapper {
max-width:100%
width:100vw;
}
it work fine with me.

this is an old question and I know you found your answer
but I say this because I didn't see this anywhere else. maybe this help someone else.
if you use min-height in your CSS code, this causes a horizontal or maybe vertical useless scroll bar.
just delete it if it isn't important

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