Epub : absolute position style in Digital Editions

Hello,
I am developer, working for epub content and using Digital Editions to review generated epub file.
In one of our epub contains <div> tag like below:
<div id="top">
<img src="../image/001.jpg"/>
<div style="position:absolute; z-index: 1; top: 0px; left: 0px; font-size:x-large">Put words at 0px-0px</div>
<div style="position:absolute; z-index: 1; top: 200px; left: 100px; font-size:x-large">Put words at 200px-100px</div>
<div style="position:absolute; z-index: 1; top: 70%; left: 35%; font-size:small">Put words at 70%-35%</div>
</div>
I am trying to put the words onto the image file and it looks ok when checking it in other epub viewer but looks like DE ignoring these style attrbs: position, top, left.. and put these inner <div>s on next page.
Is there any solution for this?
just fyi, I set 'pre-paginated' on the content opf file and viewport metadata in the html file.
Thanks,
KT

Can't help directly I am afraid.
Just a comment that you should test on both v2.0/2.0.1 and on the older more reliable v1.7.2 (link below).
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Some people have found ADE trying to upgrade automatically.
It appears (not 100% sure) that if you install ADE2.0 as a new install (not as an upgrade) that your 1.7.2 will continue to run.
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The image name is Democracy in Business Dust Jacket 300dpi.jpg. It is 300 dpi and 1650 x 2550. I could also cut in the one that I did for cover.jpg but it only replaces the file name.
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<package xmlns="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" unique-identifier="bookid" version="2.0">
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        <dc:title>Thomas J. Watson Sr. Essays on Leadership - Democracy in Business</dc:title>
        <dc:creator>Peter E. Greulich</dc:creator>
        <dc:subject>Thomas J. Watson</dc:subject>
        <dc:subject>Tom Watson</dc:subject>
        <dc:subject>Tom Watson Sr.</dc:subject>
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        <dc:subject>Democracy</dc:subject>
        <dc:subject>Democracy in Business</dc:subject>
        <dc:description></dc:description>
        <dc:publisher>MBI Concepts Corporation</dc:publisher>
        <dc:date>2012-01-01</dc:date>
        <dc:source></dc:source>
        <dc:relation></dc:relation>
        <dc:coverage></dc:coverage>
        <dc:rights>2012 All rights reserved</dc:rights>
        <dc:language>en-US</dc:language>
        <dc:identifier id="bookid">ISBN:9780983373438</dc:identifier>
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        <item id="Dedication-Page" href="Dedication%20Page.html" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>
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On the absolutely great news end, you will see a lot of problems about placing images on the iPad with a lot of workarounds. They apparently (Apple) have fixed this as my two publications show images nicely now on both the iPhone and iPad with the iTunes bookshelf/reader. They were "microdots" when viewed previously. I did nothing to fix it and was just not going to publish to the iPAd and just tested them a few weeks ago and they display perfectly. So Apple has fixed the problem. If it looks good on the Nook for PC, it should look good on the iPAD/iPhone now as best I can tell.
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