Note that the autocompleter (in controls.js) does just that-- maybe  
the code for this can be
extracted and made in a small helper thingy.

-Thomas

Am 26.09.2006 um 17:41 schrieb Josh:

>
> The site I am creating contains windows that can be dragged around the
> page (think desktop).  When one of those windows contains a SELECT
> element, it always overlays all of the other elements on the page.
> This is, of course, a problem with the windowing effect as the select
> box appears above other windows.  This is only a problem in IE.
>
> Per my research, the problem is due to SELECT elements being rendered
> by the OS and not the browser itself and means that we cannot set the
> z-index of the element.  The most promising solution I found online
> involved using an IFRAME to hide the SELECT element when another  
> window
> floats over the one containing the SELECT.
>
> It seems that this would be a fairly common problem, so I hope that
> there may be a pre-existing solution to the problem or that the  
> library
> already contains handling that I have not found.
>
> Any thoughts? Has anyone encountered this problem before?
>
>
> >


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