IE show/hide select boxes

[brent80301]

When a tooltip appears over top of a select box, the select box
disappears (as expected). It however does not reappear after the tip
disappears. Any suggestions? (IE6.0.29, WinXP Pro SP SP2)

-Brent

[brent80301]

Oh yeah, I am using DOM TT Version 0.7.1.

[gautam]

Why dont you replace the version with the one that has a fix and uses
the ifram concept in IE to get rid of the search and destroy
capabilities.

[brent80301]

Thanks for your suggestion. Which version are you referring to? I am
using the latest (0.7.1).

[vitorfreitas]

After a little bit of debugging this night i think i have solved the
problem.
To apply the hack just follow this steps:

1. Open the file "domLib.js";
2. search for the function "domLib_getElementsByTagNames(in_list,
in_excludeHidden)";
3. comment the following code in the function:
<code>
if (in_excludeHidden && domLib_getComputedStyle(matches[j],
'visibility') == 'hidden')
{
continue;
}
</code>

Now everything should work fine.
I just made this hack a few minutes ago, its not propally tested so, if
you find any problems with this hack or creat a better one please
informe.
Thanks.

[brent80301]

After casual testing, your fix appears to work well for me. Thank you
very much for sharing.

-Brent

[gautam]

Brent I modified this a bit so that you dont have to search and destroy
in IE by using Iframe - do you want to use that instead?

[Dan Allen]

This problem might be caused by a conflict in domLib version between
domTT and domMenu. I needed to add a feature that would check for
hidden select boxes initially so that I didn't end up making visible
select boxes that were initially hidden. If someone can give me some
examples as to when these select boxes don't show up again, I can
probably put in a fix. Let me know if you are using any other library
like domMenu as well.

/dan

On 10/19/05, gautam <gautam....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Brent I modified this a bit so that you dont have to search and destroy
> in IE by using Iframe - do you want to use that instead?
>
>

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[Dan Allen]

Even with the iframe trick in place, search and hide select boxes is
still necessary for IE 5.0.

/dan