A thing that puzzles me...


I know it's probably easy but I can't figure out the solution.

I have a dropdown menu that running smoothly. the problem I have is that below the dropdown menu, done with a bunch of <DIV>, I also have a dropdown list.

As everybody know, there is an issue with IE 4+ where the dropdownlist is always sitting on top of a DIV , whatever the z-index you choose.

Obviously that's not the effect I want to achieve !.

Coalesys apparently seems to have solved the problem, I tried it works, but for some other reasons, I don't want use their solution. I rather prefer to build mine.

I know that I can use a simple trick: hide the dropdownlist when I activate the menu, but Coalesys control don't do that and I wonder how they achieve that.


2 Comments

  • There were articles on MSDN about this problem.





    Guess what - it works in Mozilla. You'd think that after the questions MS got about it they would have made it work without forcing you to the IE specific popup object.





    Maybe IE 6.5 or 7 will catch up.





    Paul Speranza

  • Ever seen Expedia.com? They solved the popup problem. They use an IFRAME which *can* sit above combos (dropdownlist).





    The dropdownlist and iframe are on the same level so they can sit on each other, no problem. So, if you can put your code in a seperate webpage and pull it into an iframe, you're golden ;)

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