here's one that baffles me.

[Acey99]

anyone ever create a movable layer that when you move it over form element's in IE < 7 the element shows through your movable layer ?

Yet works like it's suppose to in all other browsers ?

how do you fix this ?

[tech_support]

See this: http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archiv...09/422047.aspx

[Twey]

If it works OK in IE7, I wouldn't worry about it too much. IE7 has been released on Windows Update now, so I doubt that many IE<7 users will remain (save, of course, for IE5/Mac, which doesn't suffer from this problem insofar as I'm aware).

[boxxertrumps]

i had this problem when i was using the visual infinite menus on my site and it was on top of the iframe but below the flash movie inside the iframe...

so i got rid of infinite menus and the iframe and put my menu off to the side instead.

but I Didn't Know the z index was limited in such ways...

[Twey]

Theoretically, it shouldn't be. However, some browsers (notably IE/Win) draw certain elements (notably form controls) after everything else. <iframe>s and Flash movies are considered plugin content (<iframe>s use a new instance of the browser's rendering engine, and aren't considered a part of the page), and so this problem occurs with them in far more browsers.

[mwinter]

If it works OK in IE7, I wouldn't worry about it too much. IE7 has been released on Windows Update now, so I doubt that many IE<7 users will remain

Sorry? IE 7 is only available to users of Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows Server 2003 SP1, and Windows Vista. That leaves a large number of users from previous operating systems and versions that couldn't upgrade to IE 7 even if they wanted to.

Mike

[Twey]

Is that so? In that case, my error. However, there is no fix commonly known at the moment other than to hide the form elements when they shouldn't be visible.

[Acey99]

Noted the point that IE 7 is out, but there are those who'll skip it (like me)
who my uninstall it (yea!) or who knows what (Win <= 98 won't run IE 7 last I checked) & what if you have this scenario:

say pIII running Win 98 with IE 5.5 & can't afford to upgrade your sys to anything that'll run Xp+ or IE 7 ??

what then? I've alienated alot of users & they won't like what they see.

I know, a disclaimer saying best viewed in FF.
oh wait, that pisses people off too.

I like the iFrame idea.

[Twey]

Yes, that's so. I made that statement under the assumption that IE7 was available for Win95 and upwards.