z index and pulldown menus

[susjm]

I can't seem to place layers over pulldown menus — no matter what the z index. Does anyone know how to keep pulldown menus from automatically taking front stage?

[Ian]

moving topic from cross platform layout to client side scripting...

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[kdjoergensen]

This is a known bug or designed behaviour (you decide) in browsers today. Layers can not be placed on top of system GUI (like form elements). They will always shine through. netscape and msie implement somewhat different but both has basically same issue. even n6 let text inside elements (but atleast nolonger the element themselves) shine through.

You should swap your form elements in div tags and when activating the pull down menus you should make a function call to a function which hides the div tags holding the form elements. When the menus are later hidden the same should take place and the div tags holding the form elements should be shown again.