I think the layer thing works in very new versions of IE (newer than IE5 -- maybe starting with 5.5?). Back when I was looking at such things, the only solution I could find for IE 5 was to hide the offending form elements when the show menu function is fired. Kind of clunky, but that's exactly what Microsoft used to do on their site.
Netscape/Mozilla is another story altogether. -----Original Message----- From: John M. Corro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: DHTML Menus and Form Objects This is off topic from Struts, but I was wondering if anyone else has run into this.... If you have one of those DHTML/JS pulldown menus, it'll get hidden behind specific types of form objects (mostly select boxes). I've scoured google to see how to get around this and the only posts I've seen (that don't say "you're SOL" - which is most of them) that have any constructive input say to surround the form object w/ a div tag and to set the z-index property to something very low, then to set your DHTML/JS menu to something very high. The idea being that the form objects are assigned a lower z index than the menu so the menu should display over all the form object elements. I've tried that w/ the following statement: <div style="z-index:1"> and wasn't able to get it to work. I've tried surrounding the entire form and just the offending form element, but neither way has worked. Has anyone been able to effectively make this type of workaround work? I'm using HierMenus from www.dhtml.com on a W2k box w/ IE 5. John M. Corro Cornerstone Consulting 414.212.3500
