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yasin - 13 Dec 2004 09:09 GMT

I have created a dhtml menu via html builders name menu.html. In my web form
i am reading this html file and rendering top of the page by overloading the
render function. Everything works perfect with an exception. My menu always
goes behind the Listbox or dropdownlists. I have changed the z-orders but did
not work. What can i do for this problem.

I have one other question about CrystalReports but i did not find any
newsgroup about the CrystalReports. If you could provide me some links or
newsgroups about CrystalReports i would be grateful.

Thanks...

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Bob Barrows [MVP] - 13 Dec 2004 13:34 GMT

> I have created a dhtml menu via html builders name menu.html. In my
> web form i am reading this html file and rendering top of the page by
> overloading the render function. Everything works perfect with an
> exception. My menu always goes behind the Listbox or dropdownlists. I
> have changed the z-orders but did not work. What can i do for this
> problem.

There is no solution for this. Dropdowns are windowed controls in IE, so
they ignore the z-order setting.
All you can do is move the SELECT elements to a different location.

> I have one other question about CrystalReports but i did not find any
> newsgroup about the CrystalReports. If you could provide me some
> links or newsgroups about CrystalReports i would be grateful.

Go to http://www.businessobjects.com/

Bob Barrows

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Ronaldo Jr - 29 Dec 2004 14:05 GMT

There's no solution to this, but you can use a workaround: put a floating
IFRAME behind your menu, set its z-index a little lower than the menu's and
control its "display" property when necessary.

IFrames are special objects because they respect the z-index order AND can
overflow objects like selects, web components and others iframes.

Isn't a beautiful workaround, but it's the most reliable I found so far.

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