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How do I popup a layer so that the half that belongs over a text area, does not appear behind that text area or other form element in NS 4.X?

Nov 4th, 2003 11:38
Adam Lyons, Mike Hall, Justin Clark, http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/diner/seethru/

Unfortunately, you can't. See the link above for a detailed discussion 
of positioned elements and form elements or plugins from 
WebReference.com.
One alternative is to place the form on a layer itself, then hide it 
when you need to show another on top of it. You have to place the 
entire 
form between the layer tags however:
<layer name="formLayer" left=100 top=20>
<form action="/cgi-bin/process.cgi" method="post">
...
</form>
</layer>
There is a discussion and a variety of solutions on this topic at this 
site:
http://notnull.org/docs/windowedvswindowless.htm