Ran into this .. had a container that I was hiding with visibility:hidden, while loading markup into it.
Worked great except, of course, for all versions of IE. IE wouldn't show the badge until you moused over it. I tried all the usual IE slap-in-the-face-so-you-behave tricks to no avail (zoom, position, z-index, background, borders).
So I chose to hide the container by positioning it offscreen with left:-9999px. Bingo.
The particular content I was loading was a linkedin iframe badge - the "inline" version off their developer api page. I was loathe to switch over to the "popup" version, and am glad I dodged that bullet.
