[WEB4LIB] Dropdown Menu Dominance in IE

[Jimm Wetherbee]

Thank you all for your insights.  As it turns out, it is a windowing rather
than z-index issue (drop-down menus float above layers).  Given the chance,
I will look into the products mentioned to work around the problem with
scripts.  In the mean-time, my work around was to remove the drop down menu
and select on of the inputs into a hidden field.  The form was
designed--after all--as a quick-search into the catalog.

--jimm

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kukulka, Edward J. [mailto:Edward.Kukulka at fairfaxcounty.gov] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 5:50 PM
To: jimm at wingate.edu
Subject: RE: [WEB4LIB] Dropdown Menu Dominance in IE

Jimm,

This article on WebReference will explain what is happening.
http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/diner/seethru/index.html 

If you put your select form elements in a DIV you can write JavaScript to
show and hide the DIV while the cascading menus are in use. 

See a basic show/hide script at
http://javascript.internet.com/bgeffects/write-layer.html. Try calling the
hidelayer and showlayer functions from your cascading menu code.

Ed Kukulka
Internet Services
Fairfax County Public Library, VA
703.324.8320
www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/ 


-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On
Behalf Of Jimm Wetherbee
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 4:40 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Dropdown Menu Dominance in IE

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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