I have two anchors positioned absolute on top of an image, the links are clickable in other browsers (Chrome, FF, Safari) but not in IE (tested in 8 & 9 so far)
The strange thing is if I give the links a background-color they are clickable, however if the background-color is set to transparent (which is what I want) they are no longer clickable, I've also tried setting zoom:1 but no luck. I guess the hasLayout bit in IE went away with IE 8/9 so guessing zoom doesn't matter now for this kind of issue.
Any ideas to make these links show up in IE 8/9 with a transparent bg?
Here's the fiddle I've been working with: jsFiddle example
I have the following HTML layout:
<div id="content">
<img src="http://placehold.it/724x300" width="724" height="300" alt="woot" />
<div id="countdown"></div>
<a id="link1" href="http://www.stackoverflow.com" title="link1"></a>
<a id="link2" href="http://www.stackoverflow.com" title="link2"></a>
</div>
and CSS:
body {text-align:center;}
#content {position:relative; width:724px; height:300px; margin:0 auto;}
#countdown {position:absolute; width:650px; height:110px; top:100px; left:30px; background-color:blue;}
#link1 {position:absolute; width:520px; height:35px; bottom:20px; left:0;}
#link2 {position:absolute; width:200px; height:35px; bottom:20px; right:0;}