DHTML Dropdown menu hidden under form elements

[brookd]

Is there any way around the way that div's used in a pop up menu do not overlap select elements in a form. Do you know what I mean? The div's show fine above text fields and other form element but dissapear behind selects.

Is there any way around this?

[oblig]

I've seen on Microsoft that they seem to dynamically make the element hidden (CSS).

[brookd]

Gheez, that seems like a lot of work (in my instance) since the page is dynamic and I don't really know which form element will be affected and hiding them all would just look funny. This ones gonna be tough I think...

[Spock]

This may help. An excerpt from the link at the end.

In general, all elements are windowless and will participate in z-order overlapping. However, some objects are windowed. ActiveX Controls that have not been specifically written to be windowless will not overlap with other objects. iframe elements represent a window object, and window objects do not participate in z-order. Another exception in Internet Explorer 4.0 is the select element.



http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...html/dhtml.asp

[beetle]

Ya, read this article too

http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/di.../indexNEW.html

Note: MS did add z-index support for IFRAMES in IE5.5

[Spock]

Another good article. Bummer about there being no getting around this problem. We've got the same problem and are considering different things like moving the select box or wondering if a DHTML menu should replace the select box.