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Resolved Why does a popup cover news in news.yahoo.com

Discussion in 'Internet Explorer & Microsoft Edge' started by robls99, 2011/03/27.

  1. 2011/03/27
    robls99 Lifetime Subscription

    robls99 Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Correct title:

    Why does popup get partially covered up?

    This never used to happen, but in news.yahoo.com whenever you hover over a hyperlink on the main page, as usual you get a popup window showing the first few lines of the story .

    Now however, the right side of the popup is frequently underneath an adjacent article on the main page and you cannot read the whole thing. This only happens some times but it never used to.

    Is there a setting somewhere for this?

    I'm using XP-Pro SP3 IE8/OE6
     
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  2. 2011/03/30
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    TonyT SuperGeek Staff

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    Works fine for me in:
    IE8 on Windows 7
    IE8 on XP

    That type of error is usually caused by incorrect CSS code for the popup. The coder ommits the z-index property of the popup. z-index is used to order layers of content, setting an element to z-index:100 or 200 all but guarantees the popup will appear on top of everything else on the page. An exception is certain Flash objects on the page. If the code used to embed the Flash is incorrect then nothing will be able to be layered on top of it.

    Could be the persons that code the news pages are something in a hurry to add content...
     
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  4. 2011/03/31
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    ok, thanks for the info
     
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