Widget Area Below Header: Links not working properly in IE8

[BrianB]

I love the theme, and it works perfectly in Firefox and Chrome. However, I have an odd error in IE8 with a site I'm working on.

Here's the site: http://www.neoghoti.com

I've used the widget area below the header to put "banners" linking to some multimedia items. They're all TEXT widgets, with just image links in them, like this one:

<a href="http://neoghoti.com/?page_id=109">
<img src="http://neoghoti.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/EverGo_button.png" />
</a>

When I display the page in IE8, the links don't work for the first two widgets. On the third, the link is only visible on the right side of the image, but not on the left. In other words, if you mouse over the images, no links until you hit a point on the right side of the right most widget. I tried changing the order of the widgets, and the result is the same.

I know IE8 has some DHTML issues and some z-axis issues, but I'm out of my depth here.

It's not because IE8 is in compatibility mode. In compatibility mode, and in IE7 the links all work. (But the header is pushed down into the top navbar area.) The links all work fine in IE6 as well

Any help would be appreciated.

I posted this in the Bug Reports area, as I don't believe it's normal behavior, though the bug seems to be on IE8's part.

[sayontan]

Thanks for the very detailed description. However, I don't see any problem with anything on IE8. I can click on each of the text widgets and the right-most widget also looks fine.

[BrianB]

Thanks for the fast response.

Perhaps it's just my IE8. I'll try updating it. I'm going to assume yours is the latest update?