IE8 overflow:auto with max-height

This is a really nasty bug as it affects us heavily on Stack Overflow with <pre> code blocks, which have max-height:600 and width:auto.

It is logged as a bug in the final version of IE8 with no fix.

http://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=408759

There is a really, really hacky CSS workaround:

http://my.opera.com/dbloom/blog/2009/03/11/css-hack-for-ie8-standards-mode

/*
SUPER nasty IE8 hack to deal with this bug
*/
pre 
{
    max-height: none\9 
}

and of course conditional CSS as others have mentioned, but I dislike that because it means you're serving up extra HTML cruft in every page request.

{
overflow:auto
}

Try div overflow:auto

I saw this logged as a fixed bug in RC1. But I've found a variation that seems to cause a hard assert render failure. Involves these two styles in a nested table.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
    <title>Test</title>
    <style type="text/css">
    .calendarBody
    {
        overflow: scroll;
        max-height: 500px;
    }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <table>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
        <td>
            This is a cell in the outer table.
        <div class="calendarBody">
            <table>
                <tbody>
                <tr>
                    <td>
                    This is a cell in the inner table.
                </td>
                    </tr>
            </tbody>
                </table>
        </div>
        </td>
    </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>

{max-height:200px, Overflow:auto}

Thanks to Srinivas Tamada, The above code did work for me.

Similar situation, a pre element with maxHeight set by js to fit in allotted space, width 100%, overflow auto. If the content is shorter than maxHeight and also fits horizontally, we're good. If you resize the window so the content no longer fits horizontally, a horizontal scrollbar appears, but the height of element immediately jumps to the full maxHeight, regardless of the height of the content.

Tried various forms of the css hack mentioned by Jeff, but didn't find anything like it that wasn't a js bad-parameter error.

Best I could find was to pick your poison for ie8: Either drop the maxHeight limit, so the element can be any height (best for my case), or set height rather than maxHeight, so it's always that tall even if the content itself is much shorter. Very not ideal. Wacked behavior is gone in ie9.

IE8 overflow:auto with max-height

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