Crazy display issue with website pages. Items vanish ...but only sometimes. IE8

Here is the situation. I am using IE8 to view my website, both off and online. The website is mostly PHP, MySql, a separate CSS sylesheet and of course all the HTML needed in between.

The problem is that sometimes, when viewing both my offline development version fil开发者_如何转开发es and the uploaded online version on the live website itself - intermittantly, some "pieces" will not display. These are sometimes some of the graphics or some of the text.

If the page is long enough in length (off the screen) I can wiggle the vertical scrollbar and the stuff will pop back into view. Sometimes I can get all items back by refreshing the browser too. Again, sometimes there simply is no problem at all and everything displays just fine. It's maddening.

I searched and couldn't find a specific answer to this. I also didn't include any code because I don't have a clue as to what part may be causing this erratic behaviour. If anyone has had the same problem and managed to resolve it - please share. I'd be greatful.

Although I have not included code (proprietary reasons) the work in progress can be viewed at www.auxcash.com - using w3c validation services both CSS and HTML checks out except for minor missing "alt"s for a couple of images. Also, I think the hasLayout no longer applies to IE8 in reading articles.

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Most likely this issue is cause by IE's propery hasLayout. Install IE developer Toolbar and try to inspect the elements in your code.

This property ( which , btw, is not css property and cannot be set directly ) is the one causing most of IE rendering bugs.

P.S. this all is just a guess , because you didn't provide any testcase or live page to look at.