Sortable problem in Chrome and Opera

Sortable problem in Chrome and Opera

I have a sortable UL using images. Chrome and Opera are putting a height of 15px through 'element.style' of course the images are taller than that, and the result in Chrome and Opera is very bad. The stylesheet for these LIs (.burkeRankItem) specifies no height and IE and FF let the LIs alone and everything is fine.  There is a table surrounding the UL - if that matters.
 
 
 
SOLUTION -> (found on stackoverflow if I remember correctly) added !important to height and added overflow:hidden to .burkeRankItem
 
 
here's my css
 

  1. /* these are for draggable ranking questions */

    #sortable

    {

    list-style-type: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 100%;

    }

    .burkeRankItem

    {

    margin: 3px 3px 3px 3px; padding:6px 6px 6px 6px; font-family:arial; font-size:9pt; border-style:solid; border-width:thin; border-color:#72A4D2; cursor:pointer; height:auto

    }

    .burkeRankTable

    {

    border-style:ridge; border-width:thin; border-color:#F2F2E9;

    }

    /* end of draggable ranking styles */

 
TIA