[css-d] z-index issue: clarification

2006-06-07 Thread xtiandc
I put together a simpler version of the page for feedback: http://demo.wfp.com/flyout.htm As is now, no z-index's are specified. The menu is placed at the bottom of document and therefore inherits the higher value (I assume). This means that the link to the left does not work (strangely enough,

Re: [css-d] z-index issue: clarification

2006-06-07 Thread Ingo Chao
xtiandc wrote: I put together a simpler version of the page for feedback: http://demo.wfp.com/flyout.htm As is now, no z-index's are specified. The menu is placed at the bottom of document and therefore inherits the higher value (I assume). This means that the link to the left does not

Re: [css-d] z-index issue: clarification

2006-06-07 Thread Ingo Chao
Ingo Chao wrote: The testlink can only be placed over or under this stacking context of scrollbox, further or nearer to the user. And the dilemma is, that in your concept, scrollbox must have this width and height to bring overflow:hidden into play. Scrollbox has to clip the menu. I don't

Re: [css-d] z-index issue: clarification

2006-06-07 Thread xtiandc
Ingo Chao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo Chao wrote: The testlink can only be placed over or under this stacking context of scrollbox, further or nearer to the user. And the dilemma is, that in your concept, scrollbox must have this width and height to bring overflow:hidden into play.

Re: [css-d] z-index issue: clarification

2006-06-07 Thread Ingo Chao
xtiandc wrote: My only thought was to enforce the z-index not on the parent (scrollbox), but rather on its children (hover), hence really only come into play when visible and thereby leaving the text link not covered by scrollbox. I dunno if it's even possible. Sure, but on the other