# CSS Rollover/tooltip IE Compatability Issue

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-rollover-tooltip-ie-compatability-issue/158651>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [August 10, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-rollover-tooltip-ie-compatability-issue/158651 "2005-08-10T22:35:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![intrudah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/898d66/32.png) [@intrudah](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/intrudah)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-rollover-tooltip-ie-compatability-issue/158651/1 "2005-08-10T22:35:07Z")

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I’m working on a layout for a medical journal and I created a rollover (similar to the one in the tut section) with a css tooltip that works off of a \<span\>

This works fine in FF but the tooltips get overlapped by the buttons below it when I run it in IE.

I dont understand why that happens, overflow is set to visible…

[http://www.jrheum.com/~temp/new%20layout/index.php](http://www.jrheum.com/~temp/new%20layout/index.php)  
[http://www.jrheum.com/~temp/new%20layout/nlayout.css](http://www.jrheum.com/~temp/new%20layout/nlayout.css)