Dropdownlist overlaps menu control

[jaleel]

I have an aspx page containing a menu and some other controls including dropdown list.The problem is when i hover the mouse on menu control it displays all menu items.

But the part where dropdown control is renderd the menu part is gone behind the dropdown. I heard that it is aproblem of IE6 and related to z-index and all.



My sceario is like this:
1.I have a user control which contains the menu .This also contains some javascript to generate the menu depending on the menu item selected.
2. I put this user control to a Masterr page
3. There is a dropdown list (which is the culprit) in content page which is always on top of th menu.

I came to know that iframe is a solution. But I cant make it workable in my scenario.

Could anybody lend a helping hand here.

Thanks in advance,

Jaleel

[Ashlewis]

This sounds like a styling problem to me?
Are you using a stylesheet?
If so this can be sorted using z-index as you stated.
The z-index is the ordering of how somthing appears on your page, a low z-index will be further back that somthing with a higher z-index.and therefore a high z-index "object" will overlap the lower z-indexed one.

I dont really know how you've set up your drop down menu but somthing like this should work

put the CONTENT of your menu in a div.
set the styling of your menu div to have z-index of say 100.

now set whatevers overlapping your menu in a div too
and set that div to have z-index of say 1

you must set the zindexs of both divs or they wont interact with eachother how you wish.

If this isnt particularly possible to your design and you cant find a solution, id suggest scrapping your javascript menu and many going with a pure css dropdown menu,theres plenty of prebuilt ones online.

[jaleel]

Thanks Ashlewis .

I came to knew from various articles that dropdown list and list boxes are windows controls and they do not have z-index property. Actually I tried ur suggestion but not working in my case.

I heard about a solution of using <iframe>. But struggling to makr it working in my application.