title: why does display:table break absolute position on safari only?
body: <p>how it should be and looks on chrome and firefox:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/BaAXD.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/BaAXD.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>how it looks on safari: </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/BGoyr.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/BGoyr.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>removing <code>display:table</code> fixes the positioning, but i need that for the styling (equal size tabs no matter the size of content): </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/jjq45.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/jjq45.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://codepen.io/anon/pen/jLQGPV" rel="nofollow noreferrer">pen</a></p>
  
  <p>(it does seem like the display: table has a TINY effect on the positioning in chrome in the codepen, this isn't happening in my app, but that just makes this even weirder)</p>
  
  <p>relevant code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class="contain"&gt;
    &lt;div class="row"&gt;
      &lt;div class="col-md-9"&gt;
        &lt;div class="panel profile-header"&gt;
  
          &lt;ul class="nav nav-tabs profile-mobile-tabs row" role="tablist"&gt;
            &lt;li role="presentation" class="active col-xs-4"&gt;&lt;a&gt;Activity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
            &lt;li role="presentation" class="col-xs-4"&gt;&lt;a&gt;Events&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
            &lt;li role="presentation" class="col-xs-4"&gt;&lt;a&gt;Relationships&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;/ul&gt;
        &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  
  
  .contain {
    width: 100rem;
  }
  
  .profile-header {
    position: relative;
    padding: 10px;
    background-color: gray;
    margin-bottom: 4rem;
    .row {
      margin: 0;
    }
  }
  
  
  .profile-header &gt; .profile-mobile-tabs {
    display: table;
    table-layout: fixed;
    position: absolute;
    bottom: -2.5rem;
    right: 0;
    width: 100%;
    border: 0;
    background-color: darkgray;
    &gt; li {
      display: table-cell;
      //width: 1%;
      float: none;
      padding: 0;
      &gt; a {
        text-align: center;
        margin: 0;
        border-radius: 0;
        border: 0;
      }
    }
  }
  </code></pre>