My Select Box is on top of my div

[Mark Reyes]

Hi,

I am not sure why is my gui rendering like this. I have a floating div menu and beneath it are forms with select boxes. My problem is, the menu div looks good on Firefox but
on IE 6, my Select Boxes are rendering on top also looking like its part of the menu.

Is this an IE6 bug? I have not yet encountered something like this before.

Thanks.

[Eric Pascarello]

This is the first time you ran into this in 10 years that Internet Explorer 6 has been around?

It is not a bug, that is how selects render and there is no way to set z-indexes on the select to change it.

You need to find a menu that uses iframe shims so it will be able to go over selects and flash elements.

Eric

[David Newton]

IE6 *is* a bug.



I'm currently trying to make the case for dropping IE6 support and adding Chrome. I know--you wouldn't think I'd have to talk very long. Therein lies a tale I've encountered at my last three jobs: "Our internal applications rely on IE6."

Well then. Sounds like somebody screwed up some time ago, huh. You want IE6 support? You bring in an HTML/CSS/JavaScript guy that still cares about it that can make real pages degrade gracefully, fine. Otherwise go sit in the corner and email me an apology every few hours between crying jags.

Rant over (for now).

[Bear Bibeault]

Unless someone has a gun to your head, don't bother with IE6. Even Microsoft is trying to get people to stop using it.

[Mark Reyes]

IE6 *is* a bug.

I am not surprised, my question becomes like this..

But unfortunately, I dont have the luxury of telling my clients that they should upgrade. I should support IE6 for that matter.

This is the first time you ran into this in 10 years that Internet Explorer 6 has been around?

This is actually my first time in doing a web site of my own. I am doing both the client side and the server side codes. I learned java about 2 and a half years ago but
my boss keeps on giving me projects that are SWT based or Swing based.

You need to find a menu that uses iframe shims so it will be able to go over selects and flash elements.

I used the menus from these site http://apycom.com/, but I have tested some of it and they are all the same. They are not built on Iframe.
Do you know any menus that are free and made from jquery that has this Iframe shim option?

Thanks.

[David Newton]

I searched on Google for "jquery +menu +ie6 bug" and got a whole bunch of hits--you might want to try that.

http://webdemar.com/webdesign/superfish-jquery-menu-ie-z-index-bug/
http://www.kevinquillen.com/?p=90

etc.

[Mark Reyes]

Hi David,

Thanks.. I will check on your links...