Combobox/CSS-Layers

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April 15th, 2001, 11:19 PM

computergfx

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Has anyone had a problem with creating a css layer and positioning it over a combo box in IE (5.5)? I have already tried putting my combo box on a seperate layer and positioning it below the other layer but still can't seem to get the combo box to go beneath the css layer.

What I am actually doing is having a drop down menu, when the menu drops down it is being positioned over a combo box that is already on the page.

Any help would be great! Thanks.

April 17th, 2001, 09:09 AM

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combo box/layer

try this. allows you to show & hide controls in the same space by manipulating visibility of the layers.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>How to Hide Form Elements</TITLE>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<script type=text/javascript>

// identify Netscape or MSIE
var isIE = (document.all) ? true : false;
var isNS = (document.layers) ? true : false;

function toggleT( objName, swi ) {

if ( isIE ) {
( swi == "s" ) ? eval("document.all." + objName + ".style.visibility='visible';") :
eval("document.all." + objName + ".style.visibility='hidden';");
}
else {
( swi == "s" ) ? eval("document.layers['" + objName + "'].visibility='show';") :
eval("document.layers['" + objName + "'].visibility='hide';");
}
}

</script>
</HEAD>

<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">

<span id="controlSection">
<form name="form0">
Controls for the first set of controls.<br />
Visible <input name="r1" type="radio" value="" onClick="toggleT('divtag1','s'); toggleT('divtag2','h'); toggleT('divtag3','h');"><br />
Hidden <input name="r1" type="radio" value="" onClick="toggleT('divtag1','h')">
<br />
<br />
Controls for the second set of controls.<br />
Visible <input name="r2" type="radio" value="" onClick="toggleT('divtag2','s'); toggleT('divtag1','h'); toggleT('divtag3','h');"><br />
Hidden <input name="r2" type="radio" value="" onClick="toggleT('divtag2','h')">
<br />
<br />
Controls for the third set of controls.<br />
Visible <input name="r3" type="radio" value="" onClick="toggleT('divtag3','s'); toggleT('divtag1','h'); toggleT('divtag2','h');"><br />
Hidden <input name="r3" type="radio" value="" onClick="toggleT('divtag3','h')">
</form>
</span>

<span id="divtag1">
<form name="form1">
This is initially visible<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="textBox"><br />
<INPUT TYPE="submit"><INPUT TYPE="reset">
</form>
</span>

<span id="divtag2">
<form name="form2">
This is initially invisible<select name="selectBox" size="3">
</select><br />
<INPUT TYPE="submit"><INPUT TYPE="reset">
</form>
</span>

<span id="divtag3">
<form name="form3">
This is initially invisible
<textarea cols="25" rows="3" name="textArea">asdfasfafd</textarea><br />
<INPUT TYPE="submit"><INPUT TYPE="reset">
</form>
</span>

<span id="explainations">
<span class="heading">Hiding and Show Form Objects.</span><br />

For whatever reason, if you embed your form objects,<br />
no matter what they are, into seperate forms, you are<br />
then able to use style containers, defined to overlay one<br />
another, to hide or show the various element sets as you see fit.<br />
</span>

</BODY>
</HTML>

April 17th, 2001, 05:12 PM

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April 17th, 2001, 11:27 PM

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thanks

Thanks for your help guys! I have just decided to have it hide the combobox when the dropdown menu comes down, never even thought about it.

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