Can <select> go behind <div>

[Jay1Roy]

Hi All,

I have a problem that has gone critical now... I have a popping up <div> with some message but the <select>s don't go behind the popup they show up shamelessly...:-(

This is very frustrating now.... any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance...

Roy.

 

[xutopia]

I know exactly how you feel RoyOBoy. I use this script to hide all selects from the page whenever I put a div in front of everything. but it really hides the <select> completely so I only use when I know I need to show a div in front of a select box. Not easy to implement but I hope you will find a solution.

function hideFormSelect()
{
if (!document.all)
{
return; // only Internet Explorer is affected by the bug
}
var dfl = document.forms.length;
for (var i = 0; i < dfl; i++)
{
var dfle = document.forms.elements.length;
for (var j = 0; j < dfle; j++)
{
if (document.forms.elements[j].type.indexOf('sel') != -1)
{
document.forms.elements[j].style.visibility = 'hidden'
}
}
}
}

function showFormSelect()
{
if (!document.all)
{
return; // only Internet Explorer is affected by the bug
}
var dfl = document.forms.length;
for (var i = 0; i < dfl; i++)
{
var dfle = document.forms.elements.length;
for (var j = 0; j < dfle; j++)
{
if (document.forms.elements[j].type.indexOf('sel') != -1)
{
document.forms.elements[j].style.visibility = 'visible';
}
}
}
} Gary

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Haran

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

This explain why the problem occurs..

I had this problem in a form a while ago and ended up having to scrap the whole idea..

http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/diner/seethru/

Hope this helps Wullie

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[Jay1Roy]

Hi guys,

Thanks for the help... I got the thing going with an IFRAME!

Cheers!

Roy.