Okay so I did some testing with this idea and if the element has a background color on it, the iframe will show above it. You can see the result on my test page.
-- Brandon Aaron On 3/17/07, Brandon Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Joel, > > Thanks for the information! It is true that the iframe is behind the > element it is called on by setting the z-index to -1 and by where it > is inserted into the DOM. The only time the iframe should show through > is if a child element (of the element that has the bgiframe method > called on it) has an opacity of less then 1 on it. I believe I will > take out setting the opacity by default (since in most cases it > doesn't matter) and add an option to include it. > > -- > Brandon Aaron > > On 3/17/07, Joel Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 15/03/2007, at 2:41 AM, Brandon Aaron wrote: > > > Okay ... I've got a sneak peak of the new bgiframe plugin here: > > > http://brandon.jquery.com/plugins/_bgiframe/test/ > > > > > > This discussion started in the recent suckerfish plugin thread ... > > > basically they ran into an issue where the expressions used by the > > > bgiframe plugin slow down animations in IE6. This has been brought up > > > before. Hopefully the flexibility provided by the new settings will > > > help solve this problem and a few others. > > > > Hi Brandon, > > > > If you recall, the addition of an iframe to the superfish submenus > > interfered with the animations in IE6. You can see this in action on > > my demo page. However, I have found that if I delete this... > > > > filter:Alpha(Opacity=\'0\'); > > > > ...from your plugin, all the animations work perfectly as per real > > browsers, and the submenus still stay above the select elements. I do > > realise it's possible that this only happens to be a good option in > > my case because I am adding the bgiframe solution only on hover (I > > would remove them on 'hoverOut' too), therefore I don't need to make > > the iframes invisible (I don't see the iframes even though I removed > > that line - I take it the iframe is behind the submenu?). > > > > Would it be possible to add an option to your plugin so that the > > opacity is not applied? That way developers have the option of > > dynamically applying and removing the iframe, allowing animations to > > work on the element the iframe is attached to. > > > > No rush of course - its the weekend :) > > > > Cheers > > Joel Birch. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > jQuery mailing list > > discuss@jquery.com > > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > > > _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
