# How to position from bottom in IE?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-position-from-bottom-in-ie/194787>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [July 26, 2006, 10:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-position-from-bottom-in-ie/194787 "2006-07-26T10:29:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![kathari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a183cd/32.png) [@kathari](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kathari)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 10:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-position-from-bottom-in-ie/194787/1 "2006-07-26T10:29:52Z")

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Hi,  
I have a site where I need to position a div (nested inside another div) at the very bottom of its parent div. In Firefox and Safari it works fine with the following;

```auto
<div id="leftmenu">
			<ul>
				<li>&nbsp;</li>
				<li>&nbsp;</li>
				<li>&nbsp;</li>
				<li>&nbsp;</li>
				<li>&nbsp;</li>
			</ul>
			
      <div id="language">
        <ul>
          <li><a href="#">item 1</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">item 2</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">item 3</a></li>
        </ul>
      </div>
		</div>

```

and this css:

```auto
#language {
	width: 180px;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	position: absolute;
	bottom: 0;
}

```

But this doesn’t seem to work with IE for Mac. The “language” div simply disappears. Maybe because IE positions it below the bottom?  
I am simply not sure how I should calculate bottom positioning. Also I haven’t checked this on PCs yet.  
Can somebody advice me?