Ha:
Hopefully you'll be glad to know this is really a common problem. First
off, i want you to understand that this is a "feature". Let me explain why.
a select is a windowed control and doesn't participate in the normal
z-indexing. So, without this "fix" when your menus drop, if they dropped
over a select, the select would appear on top of it. here's a simple
example you can look at:
<html><body>
<div style="background:#aaa;border:1px solid #000;"
onMouseOver="this.style.position = 'absolute';this.style.height =
'300px';">Mouse Over Me</div>
<select></select>
</body>
</html>
In IE (in firefox it'll run fine), the select will "bleed" or be seen
through the div, no matter what z-index you do or anything.
To get around this, many menu controls use some simple javascript. Whenever
a menu drops, get all the <SELECT>'s on the page and make them invisible
(whihc you can do in like 3 lines of code). It's a pretty brute force
method, but for a while it was the only way. So now you know :)
Recently a new method has come to light to solve the problem, involvnig
iframes. you can read up more on it here:
http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/jkin...07/21/488.aspx
The menues in ASP.Net 2.0 will use this feature (it's still a hack, but
atleast it gets the job done).
Karl
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In our web application(ASP.Net), we have database driven menus that are
of dropdown style on getting focus (a requirement). We've used
Javascript Menu Object for creating these menus. On different pages of
the application, we are using ASP.Net some DropDownLists. Now the
problem is that when any menu drops, these dropdownlists disappear as
long as the menu is dropped and reappear when the menu is folded back.
We are unable to find any reason and any solution for this. Can
somebody help us out of this?
Thanks in advance.
