IE bug: absolutely-positioned element with a non-transparent background colour

Question

I have an absolutely-positioned DIV that I need to trap onclick events for. It turns out that, in IE7, the DIV seems to have no \'footprint\' for things like clicking and even c

Answer 1

Had the same problem and didnt found a better solution than the transparent gif. Note that this problem also occured in IE8 for me. You don't have to use a 2x2 px gif, 1x1 px is enough.