Combo boxes allways on top

[netangel]

I don't know if this is a html or asp.net, or even an iexplorer bug, but there's something I'd like to know how to solve.

Why are the DropDownLists (combos) always on top? I've just developed a web user control that is composed by a datagrid inside a table, and both inside a panel.
I have my page with 'flowlayout' but I'm showing my control with 'absolute' positioning. The problem is that my controls appears in top of everything except the dropdownlists.

I thought they were web controls like all the others. What's the difference? NetAngel

 

[link9]

It's HTML.

They always show on top of everything (at the end of the day, it's all just pure html)... When I have DHTML menus, I have to make sure that they won't overlap a dropdown list, or the menu just slips right up underneath them.

:-(

 

[netangel]

Isn't there anything we can do, besides not using it or hack and sack W3C's and Microsoft's sites?

I've seen on .net help that the select control is the only one that doesn't allow the z-index or zindex style. Does it work the same way on Netscape and other browsers or is this only a IExplorer bad interpertation of HTML?
NetAngel

 

[link9]

I know of no way around it, and to my knowledge, the behavior is the same in all browsers.

I abandoned the chase a few years ago, though, so I can't say for sure that there isn't a new workaround.