Dropdown Menu Dominance in IE

[Joe Montibello]

Jimm,

After a quick look at the page, it seems to me that all elements have a z-index of 1.  Would giving the dropdown menu a z-index of zero force it into the background, relative to the layer-driven ones?

Let us know how this comes out.
Joe Montibello
Phillips Exeter Academy


>Topic No. 1
>
>Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 16:33:10 -0400
>From: "Jimm Wetherbee" <jimm at wingate.edu>
>To: <web4lib at webjunction.org>
>Subject: Dropdown Menu Dominance in IE
>Message-ID: <200406021630412.SM00359 at inceptor>
>
>All,
>
>I've been revising our library's homepage (thanks to a good deal of cribbing
>from Cal. State -- LA).  The main feature of this new page is a cascading
>menu. All was going well until I added a layer that included a drop-down
>menu.  The menu cascades to three levels in succeeding layers.  Where the
>third menu level overlaps the drop-down menu, the drop-down menu (and no
>other field in the form) takes precedence so that part of the menu is cannot
>be seen.  This seems to happen only in IE.  How to I keep the cascading
>(layer driven) menu on top of the drop-down menu. A copy of this work in
>progress (It is only a functional mock-up as of yet. I haven't even tested
>all the links) can be found at
>http://library.wingate.edu/floatingmenu01a.html.  Any help in figuring this
>out would be greatly appreciated.
>
>TIA,
>
>--jimm
>
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