I have a page containing sliders which works fine except on ie7 and ie8. The page is long, so you would have to scroll down to see the footer.

The problem is that when the page first presents on ie7 or 8, it doesn't draw the footer unless I resize the browser window. On pages without sliders, the footer appears as it should.

Additionally, if I resize the browser window to see the footer before expanding any slider, then expand a slider, the footer remains where it is and the page gets longer below the footer.

If I expand a slider first, then resize the browser window after, the footer will then move up and down, with the extra space being allocated above the footer.

Of course, none of this weirdness happens on FF or safari, on mac or windows. Can anyone tell me anything about what IE might be needing in order to work properly?

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