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

I don't think there is. I've tried to solve this problem at my job. Hiding the select control was the best we could come up with (being a corporate shop with a captive audience, user experience doesn't usually factor into the PM's decisions).

From what I could gather online when looking for a solution, there's just no good solution to this. I like the FogBugz solution (the same thing done by a lot of high-profile sites, like Facebook), and this is actually what I use in my own projects.