How to solve the select overlap bug in IE6?

Question

When using IE, you cannot put an absolutely positioned div over a select input element. That\'s because the select element is considered an ActiveX object and is on top of every

Answer 1

Thanks for the iframe hack solution. It's ugly and yet still elegant. :)

Just a comment. If you happen to be running your site via SSL, the dummy iframe tag needs to have a src specified, otherwise IE6 is going to complain with a security warning.

example:

I've seen some people recommend setting src to blank.html ... but I like the javascript way more. Go figure.