Call for help (menus/JavaScript/etc)

By Lisa on June 15, 2005 1:10 PM | work related stuff | Permalink | Comments (2)

Another work question.

We have a menu system on our web site that's written in CSS. It works fantastically except when there are HTML dropdowns (SELECTs) or Flash files that appear below the menus. When that happens, weird things happen with the menus.

Weirdness:

(click for bigger)

We know that you can use JavaScript to hide the HTML dropdowns, etc when the menus are activated (that's what we used to do when we had JavaScript menus) but that's not very graceful. Do you know of a better way to accomplish the same thing?

2 Comments

dbs said:

clicky screen shotty no workee.

Er, actually, it does work, but not from LJ. Dunno why.

Can't help on the specific problem tho

June 15, 2005 4:27 PM

Happy Steve said:

Well, I was going to post saying that hiding the dropdown is the ONLY way, however I just found this page which suggests adding an absolutely positioned IFRAME on top of the dropdown, and then putting the menu on top of the IFRAME. I haven't tried it myself but it's worth a shot: http://www.brainjar.com/dhtml/menubar/default11.asp

June 16, 2005 7:42 AM