[Web4lib] AJAX/CSS and select drop down boxes

[Micah Stevens]

It's working for me in IE6.0.2900

The problem is based on the historical fact that form fields have 
typically been rendered by the operating system/windowing system, where 
everything else on the page is rendered by the browser. This for a long 
time caused problems because the OS rendered form fields would draw on 
top of everything since the operating system has no idea what elements 
on the page are being drawn.

This caused enough problems that the browser developers are taking this 
into account now. For a long time you would have to hide the form 
element if you expected content to be on top of it as the work-around.

-Micah

On 03/08/2007 02:25 AM, Stephen Graham wrote:
> Hi - I'm using a Ajax library (AutoSuggest from
> http://www.brandspankingnew.net/archive/2007/02/ajax_auto_suggest_v2.htm
> l) to add some functionality to our ArticleFinder service. When a user
> starts to type in a title in the "Journal title" field, a drop box
> appears that suggests the desired title. I've got the server side script
> working which retrieves and outputs the data in XML, and I nearly have
> the client side sorted too. The problem I am having can be seen at:
>
> http://telos.london.edu/ajax/afTest.html
>
> If you start to type in the journal title, a box appears underneath the
> relevant field. In every other browser apart from Internet Explorer 6
> (well, it works in IE7, Seamonkey and Opera) the box goes over the Date
> drop down boxes. In Internet Explorer 6 the drop down fields stay on top
> and the text in the Ajax generated box gets obsured by the boxes.
>
> I must admit that CSS is not my strong point. I've been editing the CSS
> file that comes with the ajax library, and the relevant sections seem to
> be:
>
> div.autosuggest ul
> {
> 	list-style: none;
> 	border:1px solid #000;
> 	display: block;
> 	margin: 0 0 0 0;
> 	padding: 0;
> 	background-color: #FFFFFF;
> }
>
> div.autosuggest ul li a
> {
> 	color: #000000;
> 	border: none;
> 	display: block;
>     	text-decoration: none;
> 	background-color: white;
> 	text-shadow: #000 0px 0px 5pm;
> 	padding: 0;
> 	width: 100%;
> }
>
> No matter what I seemt o do I cannot get IE6 to render this like the
> other browsers do. Ny advice/suggestions would be most welcome!
>
> Stephen
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