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| From | David Kotchan |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Thanks for Tutorial + Strange Behaviour of Mini Window when Over Comboboxes (IE 6) |
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| Date | 30 June 2005 23:17 |
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Hi Tarquin
First of all: thanks hugely for a *fantastic* site. I've learned tons of
stuff (CSS and javascript) from reading your site, and I have you to
thank. Much appreciated.
My question is this: the Mini Window is awesome, but I discover that in IE
6 (specifically, v6.0.2800.1106 under Win2K SP4), my HTML comboboxes "show
through" the Mini Window. It's impossible to position the Mini Window to
appear on-top of comboboxes. I have included a small screen shot to
illustrate the effect.
As you will observe from the screen shot, I have created a Mini Window
with title 'Which Pie To Eat' and content 'Slices of Apple Pie'. The Mini
Window, when dragged about the screen, does obscure regular HTML input
elements such as textboxes, radio buttons and checkboxes. But the combobox
shows through (is on-top). It's rather odd.
This is not a show-stopper, but if you have any suggestions for solving
it, that would be great.
Thanks for your time, and thanks again for a great site.
-- David
| From | Me |
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| To | David Kotchan |
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| Subject | Re: Thanks for Tutorial + Strange Behaviour of Mini Window when Over Comboboxes (IE 6) |
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| Date | 1 July 2005 10:33 |
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David,
> It's impossible to position the Mini Window to appear on-top of
> comboboxes.
This is a long standing bug in IE, and no, it has no solution. <select>
boxes always appear in front of positioned elements. Considering how long
it is taking for them to release IE 7, I doubt that we will see a fix any
time soon.
> This is not a show-stopper, but if you have any suggestions for solving
> it, that would be great.
Well, there is a possible workaround. It involves hiding all select boxes
whenever the miniwindow is open (set visibility:hidden; on the select box).
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/
| From | David Kotchan |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Re: Thanks for Tutorial + Strange Behaviour of Mini Window when Over Comboboxes (IE 6) |
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| Date | 4 July 2005 16:18 |
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Hi Tarquin
Wow, thanks for such a prompt reply.
Hiding the comboboxes: brilliant. I never thought of that. Shame on me --
I've done experiments with hiding/showing comboboxes in other contexts,
and yet this approach never occurred to me. I guess it'll be a certain
amount of work to implement, but for sure it will work.
Thanks very much for your time, and again: thanks for a great web site.
It's a real service.
- David