Re: [Dynapi-Help] Off Topic: DHTML menu going over dropdown

[Andrew G. <an...@zo...>]

Hi,

I would also like to see these changes.
This very problem has been quite a headache for me and I would strongly 
encourage you to put any fixes into CVS.
I'd me more than happy to do some testing on them, if that would be helpful.

Andrew.


Jesse Vitrone wrote:

> That'd be great if you could post them again.
>
> I have commit access to cvs, and I could commit the changes if people 
> think it's useful, or else I can just use them locally.
>
> Thanks,
>     Jesse
>
> Bruce Tennant wrote:
>
>>I think I forwarded them once, I'll try and dig up the changes and
>>forward them again.
>>
>>I don't believe I have commit access to cvs.
>>
>>--- Jesse Vitrone <je...@6t...> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>Nice!  Are you going to commit those changes into CVS?
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>>
>>>Bruce Tennant wrote:
>>>
>>>    
>>>
>>>>I modified the DynApi htmlmenu object to find all of the form
>>>>      
>>>>
>>>elements,
>>>    
>>>
>>>>then do a bounding box check and hide any that the pull down menu
>>>>      
>>>>
>>>would
>>>    
>>>
>>>>otherwise cover.
>>>>
>>>>It is enabled only for IE, and left alone for mozilla.
>>>>
>>>>Look here for how it works:
>>>>
>>>>      
>>>>
>>>http://www.bluewolverine.com/ffmgr/ff.cgi?mtab=-pl;stab=allplyrstats;
>>>    
>>>
>>>>--- Jesse Vitrone <je...@6t...> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>
>>>>      
>>>>
>>>>>Sorry for the off topic post, but I figured if anyone would be able
>>>>>to 
>>>>>answer my question, it'd be you guys.
>>>>>
>>>>>I have a dhtml menu that I'm using, but when it expands, it goes
>>>>>        
>>>>>
>>>over
>>>    
>>>
>>>>>a 
>>>>>select dropdown, and in IE, the dropdown just shows right through
>>>>>        
>>>>>
>>>the
>>>    
>>>
>>>>>layer.  I was under the impression that there was nothing that
>>>>>        
>>>>>
>>>could
>>>    
>>>
>>>>>be 
>>>>>done about that, until I stumbled across this page:
>>>>>
>>>>>http://www.milonic.com/menusample14.php
>>>>>
>>>>>Any idea how they're doing it?  Most of their javascript code is 
>>>>>compressed, so it's hard to tell what's going on.
>>>>>Looks like it has something to do with the dropdowns being on a
>>>>>layer, 
>>>>>and then they hide part of the layer, but I'm not really clear
>>>>>        
>>>>>
>>>what's
>>>    
>>>
>>>>>going on.
>>>>>
>>>>>Work won't pay for these menu's, so I was hoping to figure out what
>>>>>        
>>>>>
>>>>>they're doing, and integrate it into the menu's that we're
>>>>>        
>>>>>
>>>currently
>>>    
>>>
>>>>>using.
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks in advance,
>>>>>   Jesse
>>>>>
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