[thelist] problem handling the menu + select box bug in IE

Pringle, Ron RPringle at aurora-il.org
Fri Mar 24 13:53:00 CST 2006


I believe that rendering issue with the select boxes is, or will be,
fixed in IE7. I seem to recall reading that on the IE7blog.

And I think those characters are Korean...! ;-)

Ron

Peter wrote:
> 		   It renders iframes (View Source) for use 
> when the menus open.  Same thing EasyListBox does (and 
> everyone else too, unless they're going to the trouble of 
> using the IE-only popup object like Menu4 does).
> 
>    Interesting that due to wrapping of that link, I got a 
> page full of Japanese characters in what looked vaguely like 
> a "file not found" message.
> 
> Peter
> 
> 				From: "James Conley" 
> Conleyj at kubota-kma.com
> 
> Scott Mitchell's skmMenu worked around it somehow but I don't see any
> special code to handle it and yet it appears to work:
> 
> http://dotnet.skcc.com/QuickStartSamples/MenuControls/skmMenuE
xamples/ex
ample6.aspx 

James c.

-----Original Message-----
From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org
On Behalf Of Matt Warden

On 3/24/06, ben morrison wrote:
> On 3/23/06, Matt Warden wrote:
> > There is a "bug" in IE that is messing with a menu on my client's 
> > site. It is a tab menu, where a hover over a tab expands a ul 
> > underneath it. Some list items in this ul have a submenu. THe bug 
> > causes select boxes underneath where the ul expands to peek through,

> > as if its z-index were higher.
>
> I have come across this bug before and used an iframe to hide the 
> select box - an ugly hack but it worked:
>
> http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/jking/archive/2003/07/21/488.aspx
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