[Javascript] Odd overlapping problem

[Peter Brunone]

Hey, I don't even speak Italian and I see the problem now.

   Since I don't speak Italian either (apologies to my grandmother), this makes me doubt my ability to explain in plain English.

A possible solution would be to stop the click event bubbling after the dropdown handles it. 

   If that's the case, wouldn't *any* spot on the page take the event away from the list?  Besides, I didn't think bubbling was position-specific like that, i.e. if the onclick event bubbles up to the page level, it doesn't respond as if a specific item on the page were clicked (although it should be able to identify the source of the event).

   I'll play with this and see if I find anything, but my gut reaction is that this isn't simply an event handling issue.  Hopefully I'm wrong; thanks for your thoughts and time thus far.

Peter

 From: Hershel Robinson hershelr at netvision.net.il

 Thanks, Hershel... I knew I could count on you :-D         LOL  

Really, the reason I was concerned about OT was because this could turn out to be an HTML/CSS issue.  I'm somewhat aware of the fact that ELB does not use select elements in IE :)         Oh. It's hard to know who knows what these days you know. :)  

    Now the fun begins.  Pull down the list in the "Tipo" column, or the one next to it; just make sure that the scrollbar is empty below the list you choose.  Now hover over one of the first options and notice how when you are in the scrollbar area, the list thinks that the bar is still over it.  The item does not change color, and if you click on it in that state, rather than selecting the item, you will scroll the page.
      I did not understand the problem until just now actually. What you are saying is that if I open a dropdown  which has the 'empty' or 'clickable' part of the horizontal scrollbar under it and I then click on that part of the dropdown which is over that part of the scrollbar, the scrollbar is scrolled. I see this problem. Hey, I don't even speak Italian and I see the problem now.         What appears to be happening is that click event which occurs on the dropdown is being 'bubbled' up to the element 'behind' it on the page. My guess, without examining the code, is that this is the issue. A possible solution would be to stop the click event bubbling after the dropdown handles it.         Hershel   

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