overflow: hidden not working

Question

Hey all, I am having a tough time with overflow: hidden. Basically I am trying to hide the overflow of an unordered list which is located in a div. I have no idea why this isn't working though. Instead of hiding it, it breaks my li's from a horizontal layout to a vertical layout. The unordered list is carousel and the container is list. My code is below:

CSS:

div.body .container .images {
 background: url(/images/images-background.jpg);
 height: 62px;
 margin-bottom: 17px;
 width: 384px;
}
div.body .container .images #images-previous {
 cursor: pointer;
 float: left;
}
div.body .container .images #images-next {
 cursor: pointer;
 float: left;
}
div.body .container .images .list {
 float: left;
 overflow: hidden;
 vertical-align: top;
 width: 336px;
}
div.body .container .images .carousel {
 margin-bottom: 6px;
 margin-top: 8px;
 width: 336px;
}

My code:

<div class="images">
 <div id="images-previous"><img src="/images/images-previous.jpg" width="24" height="62" alt="Previous" /></div>
 <div class="list">
  <ul class="carousel">
   <li><img src="/photogallery/23.jpg" width="44" height="44" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="thumbnail" /><img src="/images/carousel-image-holder-over.png" width="49" height="48" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="over" /><img src="/images/carousel-image-holder.png" width="49" height="48" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="under" /></li>
   <li><img src="/photogallery/23.jpg" width="44" height="44" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="thumbnail" /><img src="/images/carousel-image-holder-over.png" width="49" height="48" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="over" /><img src="/images/carousel-image-holder.png" width="49" height="48" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="under" /></li> 
   <li><img src="/photogallery/23.jpg" width="44" height="44" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="thumbnail" /><img src="/images/carousel-image-holder-over.png" width="49" height="48" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="over" /><img src="/images/carousel-image-holder.png" width="49" height="48" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="under" /></li>
   <li><img src="/photogallery/23.jpg" width="44" height="44" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="thumbnail" /><img src="/images/carousel-image-holder-over.png" width="49" height="48" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="over" /><img src="/images/carousel-image-holder.png" width="49" height="48" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="under" /></li>    
   <li><img src="/photogallery/23.jpg" width="44" height="44" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="thumbnail" /><img src="/images/carousel-image-holder-over.png" width="49" height="48" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="over" /><img src="/images/carousel-image-holder.png" width="49" height="48" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="under" /></li>
   <li><img src="/photogallery/23.jpg" width="44" height="44" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="thumbnail" /><img src="/images/carousel-image-holder-over.png" width="49" height="48" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="over" /><img src="/images/carousel-image-holder.png" width="49" height="48" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="under" /></li>
   <li><img src="/photogallery/23.jpg" width="44" height="44" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="thumbnail" /><img src="/images/carousel-image-holder-over.png" width="49" height="48" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="over" /><img src="/images/carousel-image-holder.png" width="49" height="48" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="under" /></li>
   <li><img src="/photogallery/23.jpg" width="44" height="44" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="thumbnail" /><img src="/images/carousel-image-holder-over.png" width="49" height="48" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="over" /><img src="/images/carousel-image-holder.png" width="49" height="48" alt="Cross Bottle 8.5" Frosted/Amber/Chain/Fleur di Lis" class="under" /></li>
   <!---
   <cfset i=1>
   <cfloop condition="i lte images.recordcount">
    <cfoutput><li><img src="#images.thumburl[i]#" width="44" height="44" alt="#images.alt[i]#" class="thumbnail" /><img src="/images/carousel-image-holder-over.png" width="49" height="48" alt="#images.alt[i]#" class="over" /><img src="/images/carousel-image-holder.png" width="49" height="48" alt="#images.alt[i]#" class="under" /></li></cfoutput>
    <cfset i=i+1>
   </cfloop>
   --->
  </ul>
 </div>
 <div id="images-next"><img src="/images/images-next.jpg" width="24" height="62" alt="Next" /></div>
 <div class="clear"></div>

Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

Ok if anyone else is having this problem this may be your answer:

If you are trying to hide absolute positioned elements make sure the container of those absolute positioned elements is relatively positioned.