AW: form element conflict with dhtml

Ross Plank <rplank@lrn.com> noticed:

> There seems to be an inherent problem with form elements such as
> SELECT tags being placed under layers DIV, SPAN, etc. These
> elements are always placed on top of all the layers. I need to
> know if there is a workaround available to deal with this problem.

Not really at the moment. All I can think of is building your own
SELECT-style element out of DHTML, with conditional document.writes
and a plain HTML SELECT element as backup for accessibility.

Future version of Internet Explorer may fix this, ref:
  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1999Dec/0156.html

Netscape is even worse in this regard since *all* form elements
are window widgets which always appear over layers.

Also, in Netscape, there is a document object, and hence a
different frames array, for each layer. Hence a form must
exist entirely on one layer.

-- 
Andrew Clover
Technical Support
1VALUE.com AG

Received on Tuesday, 28 March 2000 03:15:18 UTC