Div dropdown disappearing behind content in IE

Question

So i have a searchbox and on the right side of it there's a clickable drop down menu. When the user clicks, the menu drops down but in IE only it disappears behind some of the content underneath it. It works in Firefox (appearing over the content) I have the menu set to absolute position and it's z-index set to something like 999. If I take off the absolute position or change it to relative or something, it breaks the page in all browsers.

Help? Thanks!

Answer 1

Could you post some source code, maybe that would help figure things out.

Answer 2

I think it could be this bug:

http://nathanostgard.com/archives/2007/5/16/relative_zindex_and_ie/ http://www.brenelz.com/blog/2009/02/03/squish-the-internet-explorer-z-index-bug/

But without seeing an example I can't be too sure.