title: Links not appearing in ie 8 but they do appear in chrome
body: <p>I have some regular garden variety links (this is asp.net MVC 2 so the routing might be a little weird) that appear in chrome but not ie 8.  How the heck does that happen?
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/AohFi.png" alt="Here the link doesn&#39;t show up"></p>
  
  <p>And here the Link does show up in chrome...
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/mLDh7.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>The links that I am refering to are the Add Patient and Add Encounter links on the bottom left hand corner of the page.
  Here is the garden variety anchor tag that generates the link...</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a class="AddPatDlg" href="/PatientACO/AddPatient?PopID=1" title="Add Patient ACO Data"&gt;Add Patient&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;a class="AcoData" href="/PatientACO/AddEncounter?PopID=1" title="Add New Patient Encounter"&gt;Add Encounter&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Am I losing my mind?  How on earth is this possible?</p>
  
  <p><strong>* I just noticed that if I scroll up to a place where I can't see the link and scroll back down the links will appear.  When I mouse over them, they will disappear... Help*</strong></p>
  
  <p><strong>update 2: more code</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div id="countdownDiv" style="display:none" align="left"&gt;  
  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#990000"&gt;&lt;b&gt;This session has expired.  Please Refresh the page&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;form action="/PatientACO/TemplateInfo?PopulationID=1&amp;amp;ActiveAll=1" method="post"&gt; &lt;input type="submit" value="Refresh" id="test" /&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;div id="frReloadDiv" align="right"&gt;
    &lt;form action="/PatientACO/TemplateInfo?PopulationID=1&amp;amp;ActiveAll=0" method="post"&gt; 
  
      &lt;input type="submit" value="Show All" id="test1" /&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;form action="/PatientACO/TemplateInfo?PopulationID=1&amp;amp;ActiveAll=1" method="post"&gt; 
  
      &lt;input type="submit" value="Active Only" id="Submit1" style="display:none"/&gt;&lt;/form&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;div id="tempplateInfo"&gt;
  &lt;div id="templateResult" class="scroll"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  
  
  
  &lt;table id="table1" class="scroll" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;
  &lt;thead&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;Edit&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;MRN&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;Hospital Fin&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;First Name&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;Last Name&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;Date of birth&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;Completed Pathway&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;Completed Pathway Reason&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;PCP Appointment&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;Specialist Appointment&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;Admit Date&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;Discharge Date&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;Discharge Disposition&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;Discharge To&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;Discharge Advocate Call&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;Home Health Care Accepted&lt;/th&gt;     
      &lt;th&gt;Safe Landing Accepted&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;PCP Name&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;PCP Phone&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;PCP Appointment Location&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;Specialist Name&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;Specialist Phone&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;Specialist Appointment Location&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;Comments&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;Patient Room Phone&lt;/th&gt;    
      &lt;th&gt;Phone&lt;/th&gt;         
      &lt;th&gt;Payor&lt;/th&gt;
      &lt;th&gt;MRN Type&lt;/th&gt;       
      &lt;/tr&gt;  
      &lt;/thead&gt;
      &lt;tbody&gt;
  &lt;/tbody&gt;
  &lt;/table&gt;
  
  &lt;a class="AddPatDlg" href="/PatientACO/AddPatient?PopID=1" title="Add Patient ACO  Data"&gt;Add Patient&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;a class="AcoData" href="/PatientACO/AddEncounter?PopID=1" title="Add New Patient  Encounter"&gt;Add Encounter&lt;/a&gt;
  
      &lt;p style="text-align:left"&gt;
      &lt;b&gt;
  
      &lt;/b&gt;
      &lt;/p&gt;     
   &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Maybe that table align left is throwing me for a loop. 
  <strong>UPDATE:  the align left doesn't appear to be doing anything... It seems as though "text-align:right" didn't fix anything</strong></p>
  
  <p>I also noticed that in compatibility mode that issue doesn't appear at all.</p>