This one is a stumper!! Menu opening behind scrolling banner

[CoyTJ]

I placed the menu in the horizonal mode and placed a scrolling banner below it. When I open the drop down menu it goes behind the scrolling banner just below it. Is there anyway to force it to be on top of the scrolling banner? thanks again. Tim

Here is link http://www.usjobpost.com/test/

when select the Search, News/Weather/Sports, PISD Schools drop down menu. Sorry only had it in the building stage on my desktop but posted as test. Thanks TIM

[Hergio]

We need a URL to see whats going on. We have no idea what the scrolling banner is doing, or how its implemented or what.

[CoyTJ]

http://www.usjobpost.com/test/
when select the Search, News/Weather/Sports, PISD Schools drop down menu. Sorry only had it in the building stage on my desktop but posted as test. Thanks TIM

[Hergio]

Its because its an applet. As far as I know, you can't get the menu over applets. They are not technically 'part' of the page, but are above it all and cannot be accessed by the DOM in the browser so the menu can't increase its z-layer value to over come it. If it was flash, we may be able to do somethign about it, but applets, i believe are really not nice. You might have to try and HIDE the applet by placing it in a div tag and hiding the div tag on mouseover, but I also doubt this will work since its an applet. You may be out of luck. Anyone else with a comment on applets?

[John]

Anyone else with a comment on applets?

I fought exactly the same thing on a page I was trying to fix that was actually somebody else's nightmare. Since what I was doing was only going to be temporary I just put in a bunch of <p>&nbsp;</p> to move the applet down and out of the way. Spent hours trying to get the miserable thing to give up the front position, but never did get it.

[Ruth]

Ok, this is the only solution I could figure out playing with the page. First Switch the Search with the Travel since search is the longest item you have get it way away from the applet. Second. You have a table of 1 column, 3 rows, the 3rd row has another table of 4 or 5 rows with 5 columns. The applet behind which the menu hides is in the top row with a column span of 3. take that column span and move it to the last row, moving the other rows up accordingly. I tried it in my editor and nothing goes behind the applet. That's the only thing I could figure to work. You can try just moving that table down by a couple of line breaks and then making the submenus which get hidden horizontal changing their width to 100%, it works but it doesnt' really look very good. Good Luck.

Ruth

[hass]

Its because its an applet. As far as I know, you can't get the menu over applets. They are not technically 'part' of the page, but are above it all and cannot be accessed by the DOM in the browser so the menu can't increase its z-layer value to over come it. If it was flash, we may be able to do somethign about it, but applets, i believe are really not nice. You might have to try and HIDE the applet by placing it in a div tag and hiding the div tag on mouseover, but I also doubt this will work since its an applet. You may be out of luck. Anyone else with a comment on applets?

Hi Herbio,

you said that if it was flash you could do something about it. What would you do?

Thanks
hass

[Hergio]

There is a way to set the background color of the flash object to transparent which allows items on a web page to redner above it. Do a search on the forums for flash and transparent and you should find some information that may be able to solve your problem. Good luck!