Tooltips on this page should appear (vertically, not directly) below their direct parent element, right?

Hover your mouse over the footnote numbers to reveal the hidden elements. Note that the positioning of the revealed elements CHANGES with serif (Times New Roman) vs sans-serif fonts (Lucida Grande). Set your font to a sans-serif font before testing, and then reload with a serif font. You may need to hit the refresh button more than once. Don't ask me why.

This paragraph uses a div class called "container" with a width setting of 300px:

Naming a product by committee is a dangerous thing. It tends to, but not always, lead to silly product names like "Entourage" and "Paint Shop Pro"[1][1] Paint Shop Pro comes out of this article as soon as my copy of Paint Shop Standard arrives.. I have the feeling GIMP was named on a mailing list.

This one uses "container2", whose only difference is NO width setting at all:

Naming a product by committee is a dangerous thing. It tends to, but not always, lead to silly product names like "Entourage" and "Paint Shop Pro"[1][1] Paint Shop Pro comes out of this article as soon as my copy of Paint Shop Standard arrives.. I have the feeling GIMP was named on a mailing list.

For future reference by scientists, here is an example of the original problem in action (footnotes are in various posts):

http://www.mikey-san.net/damage/broken_footnotes.html

This box uses "container", which has a defined width of 300px, but I've added "display: inline-block;" to the parent span of the hidden element. I'm pretty sure inline-block isn't necessary, but for some reason, Safari 1.3 doesn't behave without it.

Naming a product by committee is a dangerous thing. It tends to, but not always, lead to silly product names like "Entourage" and "Paint Shop Pro"[1][1] Paint Shop Pro comes out of this article as soon as my copy of Paint Shop Standard arrives.. I have the feeling GIMP was named on a mailing list.