So, although it's an ugly hack, I'm working around the issue by setting the background of the overlay element to #fefefe and giving the element an opacity of 0.01. Which works.
On Aug 4, 2:12 pm, ak732 <ask...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks elubin. Actually, I had already tried that. I set z-indexes > for the parent, the checkbox and the anchor overlaying the checkbox > (actually, you can see some remaining, commented out code from when I > tried it). Anyway, z-index tweaks didn't appear to fix the problem. > > I just now tried setting a background color (to #eee). That caused > the overlay element (the anchor) to intercept the mouse clicks which > is good. However it hides the underlying checkbox which is bad. I > tried making setting the background to transparent but that lets the > mouse clicks "leak through". > > I really hate IE. > > On Aug 4, 2:07 pm, elubin <elu...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > try raising the z-order of the anchor
