AJAX select list issue in IE6 Jan11 '06
Today I put some AJAX into a form I’m working on, in order to more smoothly facilitate finding a person’s name from a database.
The approach works great, except in IE 6, any select lists that reside underneath the DHTML layer show through:
This doesn’t seem to happen for any other form element, and it only happens in IE 6. Firefox displays it properly.
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Good ideas... For now, I just went ahead and used styles to "hide" the obtrusive select lists, when the DHTML layer is shown: ... Read more.
Hey that's a good solution! I had this problem a few days later but had forgotten about this post... oops. BUT, apparently it's been fixed for IE7, ... Read more.
IE6 = devil. one of the best work arounds for IE6 not listening to z-index, is to generate an <IFRAME> for every floating div and r ... Read more.
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z-index is (probably) your friend. May also help to set position:relative. I was actually having similar problems today (though not with AJAX per-s ... Read more.