273666 - Scroll bars overlap CSS/JavaScript drop down menu when menu opens over a div that uses overflow: scroll;. Also, The menu disappears when you try to navigate to buttons over the div.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Dan Hoffman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

The drop down menu, "Allied Health Programs", at http://www.hoffmanslounge.com/pit/bios.html is 
using <ul>, CSS & JavaScript to be created. The menu works fine, but the the <div>, below the menu, 
has a style of overflow: scroll; and the scroll bar overlaps the menu when it's open. The menu also 
closes when you try to select an option that is over the div, making it impossible to make a selection 
from it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a drop down menu using the <ul> tag, CSS and JavaScript.
2. Create a <div> under the menu.
3. See test code at: http://www.hoffmanslounge.com/bugtest.html (view source).
Actual Results:  
See problems listed in test DIV at: http://www.hoffmanslounge.com/bugtest.html

Expected Results:  
Menu should overlap <div> and scroll bars. You should be able to select a menu item over the <div> 
without the menu disappearing.

n/a

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Well, unfortunately you're stuck with that for Firefox 1.0. Your testcase works
exactly as you want it to in a current nightly trunk build, but because 1.0's
rendering engine branched quite a while back, hoping for stability, it didn't
get any of those fixes. That can't be changed, there aren't going to be layout
fixes for a hypothetical 1.0.1, so even though it doesn't come close to working
right in the current release, it's already fixed by various other bug fixes for
the next release, which amounts to a WORKSFORME resolution.

Comment 2

[jackchen]

I just download the MAC firefox 1.0.2, the same problem still showes.