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Feb 28.2008

I’ve got quite a weird problem. I’m working on a big project in Canada. We’re building a JAVA based Web application (JSP generated HTML pages). We found a bug that manifests only under Internet Explorer ( not present with FireFox).

When you get your cursor over a label that has a tooltip, as soon as it appears, if there’s a select object (dropdown list) near it, the select object simply disappears from the form. This event happens only with select object and only with internet explorer. It also happens in some othe pages. When you get your pointer over a dropdown menu to see the options, the select objects in the page disapear.

Anyone already had this problem???

Thanks a lot

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@KDLAFeb 28.2008 — This is quite perplexing. Could you send a link to a page displaying the behavior? I'm having trouble figuring out what you mean by "tooltip" (the regular old browser tooltip, or a js or css -generated one).
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@Biker23authorFeb 28.2008 — Unfortunatly I cannot. But what I can tell you is that the problem is not specifically related to the tooltip. The select objects disappear on multiple circumstances. For exemple, on some pages, when you get your cursor over a dropdown menu, all the select objects disapear from the page... and come back as soon as you get your cursor away. And like I said ... happens only with IE
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@KDLAFeb 28.2008 — Are your elements absolutely or relatively positioned? It could be a z-index problem.

KDLA
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@Biker23authorFeb 28.2008 — Relatively ... I think. I found this article online. Same problem ... but his solution is quite complicated. I'm looking for a simpler alternative.

http://www.javascriptjunkie.com/?p=5

here's an other one.

Seem's to be a common problem

http://www.macridesweb.com/oltest/IframeShim.html
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@felgallFeb 28.2008 — Internet Explorer 6 automatically sets select dropdowns in front of everything else.

Opera 8 does the same with iframes.

The simplest solution is to upgrade the browser to the latest version that doesn't have the problem. The only way to solve it for IE6 and Opera 8 is to hide all selects and iframes when something needs to go in front of it.
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@Biker23authorFeb 28.2008 — I don't know if you're good in HTML ... but if you want, I could post you a functionnal part of my code ... where the modifications need to be applied.
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@Biker23authorMar 03.2008 — I'va got a known problem with IE. I'm working a big web application in Canada. When a tooltip overlaps over a select list, the select list stays on top of the tooltip. I found a couple of sites describing a workaroud to solve the probleme using an IFrame objet to hide the select. Does anyone have a code exemple of this method working??

Here are the sites I'm talking about.

http://www.dyn-web.com/dhtml/tooltips/tooltip-selects.html

http://xlib.wordpress.com/2006/04/12/bug-fix-select-box-displayed-through-dynamic-div-in-internet-explorer/

http://www.webreference.com/programming/javascript/form/2.html

Thanks everyone.

[*note -- Post moved -- same request as previous posting (above) -- KDLA]
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