[WEB4LIB] RE: Dropdown Menu Dominance in IE

[Pons, Lisa (ponslm)]

You might try experimenting with the z-index attribute in CSS.

Lisa Pons-Haitz

Webmaster
University Libraries
University of Cincinnati
lisa.pons at uc.edu
(513)556-1431

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David King [mailto:DavidKing at kclibrary.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 5:01 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Dropdown Menu Dominance in IE
> 
> 
> 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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