Menu Drops down behind form-element..= not good...Solution?

Poster: SoTTo
Dated: Monday June 3 2002 - 13:37:31 BST

When i put a <form> and a <select > list in it... and the menu drops down...it should drop down above it...not below...

How can i put the menu on top of the form?

I saw an example on there page....that is working....but no explanation of it yet....
anybody figured that out yet?

Is it something in the overforms_array.js? is it a different mmenu.js?
I see they're putting their form between <div></div> ... but don't find the div's referenced....so....

Plz response...how did they do it?

Greetz SoTTo

Poster: John
Dated: Monday June 3 2002 - 17:37:04 BST

Enclose your entire <form> within a <div id="any_name" style="position:relative">. Then include your chosen "any_name" within each menu definition that you want to trigger the hide function as addmenu(menu=["home",106,36,90,0,"",style1,,"left",effect,,,,,,,,"any_name",,,,

This last one is the "ID of the div you want to hide on MouseOver (useful for hiding form elements)" item.

Poster: John
Dated: Monday June 3 2002 - 17:51:15 BST

Forgot - see a working example at http://westcgi.west.asu.edu/sai/staff/ads/post.cfm.

Note also that it responds differently in IE and NS - in IE just the pop-ups go away, in NS the entire form hides.

Poster: SoTTo
Dated: Monday June 3 2002 - 18:44:48 BST

Hmm, yes... ic... i got it working on my testsite....the whole form dissapears: plain text, input buttons, dropboxes,... ( i used your first post to get it working)
What can be the prob?

I took a look at that page...
I don't see the difference with your first post and that working example...they also use that <div id=... style=...>

If you could explain me in more detail how they do... i'd appreciate it

(And: in NS6 not the whole form is hiding: also only the dropboxes)

Poster: SoTTo
Dated: Monday June 3 2002 - 18:49:03 BST

Oops.....

I tought u wrote Forget (what i mentioned) -- look at the working example

...

So there won't be a difference

But...still....my whole form is hiding...

if you'd like to help me and need to see the page itself... mail me... sottohimself __at__ wanadoo.be then i'll send you the link...(i don't want to get my site public yet)

Poster: John
Dated: Monday June 3 2002 - 19:20:26 BST

As mentioned, in NS (except 6) the whole form does go away. NS6 reacts like IE6 with only the pop-ups hiding. If you're looking at your site in NS other than 6 it is working properly (you said the whold form goes away). This is correct operation. So I'm confused as to why you think there's a problem. From what you say it seems to be working properly.

As for the working example I gave you - that's my site, so there won't be a difference between that and the code I placed here!

Poster: SoTTo
Dated: Monday June 3 2002 - 19:30:15 BST

No...

I look at my site with NS6 and IE6 and in both browsers the whole form is hided when moving mouse over menu

(and on your site ... it doesn't.....--> i'm jalous)

Menu Drops down behind form-element..=not good...Solution?

Poster: ChiefDND
Dated: Friday June 7 2002 - 21:26:25 BST


Hello,

I was researching this same issue and was wondering if you could share how it was resolved.

I have added the <div> as stated with the same results, the form disappears.

Thanks,
ChiefDND __at__ hotmail.com

Poster: John
Dated: Monday June 10 2002 - 15:04:38 BST

How much of a form disappears depends on the browser and version being used - either it all goes or just the pop-ups go. There's no coding change you can make to control that.