Positioned items disarranged when IE5 zooms

My apologies if this is not an appropriate question for the list, which 
I've only just discovered. The prob may be terribly basic but has me 
stalled.

I am making a version of Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner" (classic candidate 
for hypertext) with Coleridge's marginal glosses (and other things to 
come) absolute-positioned in the margins.

I have given the body "position:relative" to establish containment 
hierarchy; the text of the poem is inside <pre> tags, and I use 
em-positioning throughout.

At the moment I am using IE5 (Mac).

If I zoom the page, the glosses lose their alignment with the relevant 
lines of the poem - which at first seems to indicate I have not got my 
containment hierarchy right. Yet when I reload the page (at the new 
zoom-level) correct alignment is restored.

Is this a known problem of IE5 - or could my containment hierarchy be at 
fault after all?

At any rate, I would appreciate a fuller description of containment 
hierarchies than what is given in the books.

Thanks in advance for any guidance.

Best regards,

Bob Hughes



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