[WEB4LIB] Dropdown Menu Dominance in IE

[David King]

That's a problem that many drop-down menus have. For some strange reason, form list/menu elements take precedence over combo boxes and form objects (especially list/menu objects). Sometimes, you just have to design around the problem.

The software we use to build out menus (www.likno.com) has just created a fix for this problem - by dropping in hide and show div commands (they look sorta like javascript commands). It's easy to use, and costs $60.

David King
Kansas City Public Library
816-701-3400, ext. 2503
davidking at kclibrary.org

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Jimm Wetherbee
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 3:35 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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