Re: windowed elements and z-index

On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Manos M. Batsis wrote:

> 
>   Ok, windowed elements such as <select> and <iframe> cannot be
> controlled with z-index but, shouldn't they be dependent on their
> parent's z-index? I was expecting a <select> element to behave
> according to it's container's z-index when I expand a DHTML menu on
> top of it, instead of having to alter it's display value every time
> the menu unfolds... can someone please explain to me why?

This is just a bug in the IE 4/5 (Windows) implementaion of CSS.
I think (but don't know) that it's still a bug in IE 5.5 (Windows),
but you should verify this yourself.

Ian
 
> Manos
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Received on Saturday, 30 December 2000 14:12:54 UTC