Pop Up Menu appearing under layer

Hey guys,
please bear with me, im pretty new to DW, and i am stuck.

I created a pop up menu at the top of my page (a few in fact, coming down from
my Nav bar).
Below them is a layer with text in, and no matter what i do, my menu always
appears behind the text layer, and i can't seem to change it. I'm probably
missing something blinding obvious, but i just can't see it.
Any help would be much appreciated, as changing the layout of the site is not
really much of an option. I've tried adjustins the Z index, ive got no
overlapping switched on, and ive tried messing around with the visibilty
options. Can someone please point me in the right direction??!

Many Thanks

Gopher

You will have to edit the pop-up menu javascript that is linked on every
page to do this.

The idea is this - the pop-up layers are hardwired to have z-index of 1. If
you need your layers to go UNDER them, there is no way to adjust *your*
layers to do that, since a z-index of 0 (or less), while legal, is not well
supported. So what you have to do is to adjust the pop-up layers so that
they are at a z-index of - say - 99, i.e., higher than anything else on the
page.

Here's a recent post from Trent Pastrana that describes how to do it -

Go into your mm_menu.js file and do a search and replace for .. z-index ..
It should bring up 2 of them. Change the first one manually to a higher
number than 1.

The line looks like this belowand is around line 121 or so..

<div id="menuLayer'+ countMenus +'" style="position:absolute;z-index:3; ..

BUT WAIT!

Before you devote any more energy to this (badly flawed) menu system, read
this carefully -

http://apptools.com/rants/jsmenu.php

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"Gopher_By_Fender" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Hey guys,
please bear with me, im pretty new to DW, and i am stuck.

I created a pop up menu at the top of my page (a few in fact, coming down
from
my Nav bar).
Below them is a layer with text in, and no matter what i do, my menu
always
appears behind the text layer, and i can't seem to change it. I'm
probably
missing something blinding obvious, but i just can't see it.
Any help would be much appreciated, as changing the layout of the site is
not
really much of an option. I've tried adjustins the Z index, ive got no
overlapping switched on, and ive tried messing around with the visibilty
options. Can someone please point me in the right direction??!

Many Thanks

Gopher

cheers mate, that was a great help. i read the link at the bottom, and i think i will take the guys advice and build the menus myself from now on :P

Thanx

It's pretty simple to do - will take you about an hour of fiddling to get
straight with it. From that point on, you will never be tempted to use the
all-javsacript ones again! And, you'll learn alot too!

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"Gopher_By_Fender" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

cheers mate, that was a great help. i read the link at the bottom, and i
think i will take the guys advice and build the menus myself from now on :P

Thanx