I don't have time to put a real test-case together right now, but just on the off chance that someone's experienced the same class of problem:
I'm using jquerycyclelite (http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/lite/) to animate a set of linked images. An ancestor element has padding, but the images seem to ignore that padding when cycled. The relevant code is: $slides.css({position: 'absolute', top:0, left:0}).hide().each(function (i) { $(this).css('z-index', els.length - i) }); $(els[first]).css('opacity',1).show(); // opacity bit needed to handle reinit case although I can't reproduce the exact problem just by applying those CSS properties, so I'm guessing it's a side-effect of jquery's hide () / show(). Sound familiar to anyone? Thanks, - Bobby