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Why do <select> boxes appear over my drop down menu?

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Why do <select> boxes appear over my drop down menu?

by  RISTMO  Posted    (Edited  )
There is an IE only problem that often occurs when menus try to popup over <select> boxes. The reason why is that <select> boxes are not like normal HTML elements. Instead, they act as separate windows. To make menus appear over them, you will have to make the <select>s invisible when the menu is dropped down. You can do this by adding this to your function that pops-up the menu:

document.getElementById('select_box_id').style.visibility='hidden';

and then this to your function that closes it:

document.getElementById('select_box_id').style.visibility='';

Rick Morgan
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