I have a query sortable collection of images, ie. the items is set to img (due to the fact it is in a tab control and is a horizontal list, cannot be sorted on the list items, I just can't get it to work), which works perfectly everywhere except for IE8 (even in standards compliance mode), where the placeholder shows a broken image. Is there any kind of CSS setting I can use to make the placeholder invisible in IE8. I have tried
visibility : hidden;
I have tried setting the
content : url(transparent.gif);
neither seeming to have any effect. What can I do to fix this? Any suggestions on how I can even examine what CSS is being shown, as in Dom Explorer (or whatever its called in the IE8 developer tools) I can't see the img because as soon as I let go of the mouse it disappears and Dom Explorer doesn't seem to do real time updating the way Firebug does.
Edit: Here is the probelm duplicated http://jsbin.com/irozu
I over simplified my example, the other problem is that the whole tab is scrollable, controlled by slider. Changing
display : inline;
to
float : left;
doesn't work as we no longer have a scrollable list of items. Also for some strange reason, when there is a scrollbar and you use "li" instead of "img" as the target, the sortable stops working.
The updated example is at: http://jsbin.com/ahawi.