Rails spinoffs - Sep 2007 - Help with show div positioning over windowed elements (Flash and select) in IE 5 & 6

Is there an easy and elegant way to use prototype/scriptaculous to
over come the issue below?

I have a series of divs that I am showing and hiding on mouseover and
mouseout events. Occasionally a div might need to appear over a flash
object or a select drop-down. It is know that in Internet Explorer
(version<7), there are some elements like SELECT that always appear in
front of all other elements no matter what z-index you apply to them.
Other elements that present the same problem are ActiveX controls
(including Flash movies), OBJECT tags, plug-ins and iFrames. That''s
because these elements are implemented as windows whereas other
elements are just drawn on the existing background window.
I do not want to hide the windowed elements as that is a horrible user
experience. I have used i-frames in the past, but positioning can be
tricky since the div size that I am showing can vary in size and I
would also need to toggle visibility on the iframe at the same time as
the div.

Thanks


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The current consensus is to place an IFRAME in a div and position the
div over the element.

On Sep 13, 1:36 pm, mmlbrenda
<bstr...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Is there an easy and elegant way to use prototype/scriptaculous to
> over come the issue below?
>
> I have a series of divs that I am showing and hiding on mouseover and
> mouseout events. Occasionally a div might need to appear over a flash
> object or a select drop-down. It is know that in Internet Explorer
> (version<7), there are some elements like SELECT that always appear in
> front of all other elements no matter what z-index you apply to them.
> Other elements that present the same problem are ActiveX controls
> (including Flash movies), OBJECT tags, plug-ins and iFrames.
That''s
> because these elements are implemented as windows whereas other
> elements are just drawn on the existing background window.
> I do not want to hide the windowed elements as that is a horrible user
> experience. I have used i-frames in the past, but positioning can be
> tricky since the div size that I am showing can vary in size and I
> would also need to toggle visibility on the iframe at the same time as
> the div.
>
> Thanks

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I have used that approach in the past, but was hoping for something a
little more flexible. I am using this on a dynamic page and didn''t
want to have to fetch the size of the div element to set the size of
the iframe. *sigh* Internet Explorer workarounds are such a drag.


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