minHeight support test affects page layout in IE 9

[chrissmithet]

I am trying to apply this sticky footer pattern to my template:  http://ryanfait.com/sticky-footer/

But in Internet Explorer 9, I am seeing a scroll bar, and if I scroll down lots of white space appearing below the footer.

Jquery and jquery-ui libraries are merely included in the head, no other java script loads that could call them.

The problem still manifests, until I remove jquery-ui from the head. Then the page renders ok.

Here are some live examples:

 http://tcusers.com/examples/34456284736/with-jquery-ui.htm  http://tcusers.com/examples/34456284736/without-jquery-ui.htm

I sent a pull request that used browser sniffing to fix this problem:

 https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/pull/575

But that was rejected.

[scott.gonzalez]

Possibly related:  https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/2982abbb13454bd4bdf0299f1183fb0d8c02f02d

[scott.gonzalez]

This is actually not related to sticky footer. Here's an actually reduced test case:  http://jsfiddle.net/7D5q5/show

[Scott González]

Core: Access offsetHeight on div for support tests to avoid a layout bug in IE 9. Fixes #8026 - minHeight support test affects page layout in IE 9.

Changeset: 956c2cd2a5a44d40a9b2fb0a8c05f765fa302c92

[Scott González]

Core: Access offsetHeight on div for support tests to avoid a layout bug in IE 9. Fixes #8026 - minHeight support test affects page layout in IE 9. (cherry picked from commit 956c2cd2a5a44d40a9b2fb0a8c05f765fa302c92)

Changeset: 9e4455f52d721f2efd4c91037bcd3daf24635599