Form not showing in div on netscape 4

[thegroak]

I'm using a bratta dynamic menu for a site for one of our clients.

In one of the divs is some content that includes a search box.

This is not showing up at all in Netscape 4 and I have tried every possible position for the form tags, inside and outside the tables and divs but to no avail!

Before I destroy Netscape 4 with a stick has anyone got any clues?

mark

[JuDDer]

Maybe a silly question, but have you definitely got your form elements surrounded by <form> and </form> tags?

[tedster]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, thegroak.

Does dynamicdrive promise NN4 functionality on this script? If so, then we can dig a bit.

Forms are by nature demanding critters - high in the hierarchy of a document's structure. Is this a div which is hidden until mouseover?

[thegroak]

Hi all,

thanks for the replies

The script I'm using is foldoutmenu from bratta. It works fine in netscape 4.(well more or less). The last div in this script contains some content that exists below the menu and needs to move down when the menu is expanded. This includes a search box:

<sorry, no URLs>

as you can see here in the first column below the menu is a search box which does not show in Netscape 4.

I think its something to do with having to tell netscape that the form is in a layer but I have no idea how to do this

thanks,

mark

[edited by: tedster at 2:59 pm (utc) on Sep. 19, 2002]

[knighty]

I'm sure you could get some more table in there :P

I think its more to do with your CSS, tried viewing your site without the CSS file and I could see the search box in NN4.7

Also you have the form tags between </tr> and <tr> not a good idea as that area doesnt really exist.

[thegroak]

I have tried the form tags in every concievable position yet still a no show!

It shows up when you remove the menu css, but of course the rest of it falls apart

[tedster]

You may need to serve NN4 it's own CSS, if you aren't already. That way you can give it some code that "sort of" works, and not worry about flaking out the more contemporary browsers.

I'll bet DynamicDrive never tested their code with a form in the div.

[thegroak]

Obvioulsy that this problem had not occured to them!

I'm just wondering whether it is the css, as there are supposed to be problems with showing a form in a div in Netscape 4x anyway, although i can find practically no info on this on the net

[tedster]

Does this give you any help? I'm assuming that you are using visibility: styles.

Netscape 4

Bug: FORM (HTML) causes style to be ignored
Workaround: Wrap each segment in its own DIV or SPAN

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