[html/javascript] Dynamically Populating Select Lists and IE for the Mac
 

I am working on a gallery-builder project, and one of the things that I do to allow the client to choose various files from a photographer's library is to use one select list for the photographer, and another select list for the file library which will be dynamically filled when someone selects a photographer.

This works fine in every browser/cpu combination except for IE for the mac. In macIE, when you choose a photographer from the right-most column and the file library select populates, the cell that the selects are in shifts way over to the left, cramping the other content of the page to the left along with it.

My first guess was that when the file library select populates macIE re-renders the table. However, even when explicitly stating the width, height, and alignment of the cells the issue occurs.

Has anyone run into something like this before?

http://www.seretogis.org/files/linkables/funkymacie.jpg

You have to keep in mind that Drop Down Lists (tm) do not contain a Z-Index, and therefore no layers can be on top of them.

Check Microsofts own site, they simply design around it.

There are no layers involved, just a table.

just an aside: you know MS discontinued IE for the Mac? Not that that'll stop thousands upon thousands of stupid users from USING it, but :shrug:

that said, no haven't had my stuff wander, but haven't done enough JS or HTML to help you out... sorry!

Yeah, I heard that, and the page works fine in Safari, so I'm considering just forgetting that this problem exists, since it doesn't cause the script to be unusable, just not as pretty.

the big 3 on the "dark side" are Camino(mozilla w/ a Cocoa wrapper), Omniweb (oh my god, the UI is heavenly! but no tabs :() and Safari. if you work in them, you've covered probably about 3/4 of your Mac audience. sadly IE does still have some following, but i forecast that dying down a LOT as IE becomes an optional install in Panther, and Safari keeps improving. it's not a bad little browser, although I'm a camino fan myself...