Wierd Menu Box Appearance 1

[GaryCam]

Not an earth-shaking question here but this has been bothering me. I have a straightforward address form, form1.asp, which includes a checkbox, several text entry fields, and a drop-down menu box which lists the states.

After submitting that form the next page displays the entered info for verification. If the user spots an error, he can either use his browser's back button or use a button I've supplied to return to form1 to make changes. Here's where the wierd behavior comes in... when form1 reappears it all looks normal and contains the previously entered info EXCEPT the drop-down menu box, which instead of displaying the chosen state, looks like it's a window through which you can see a small portion of the previous page!

I'd post the code but there's absolutely nothing special about it.

Why would this happen? What's special about a menu box that it would do this but checkboxes & text boxes wouldn't? Why would this happen only when returning to form1 and not during your initial visit?

Thanks for the help,
Gary

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Gary,

I can't think of any code that would cause this to happen. It sounds very much like a browser glitch.

Incidentally, you haven't mentioned what browser(s) the problem manifests itself in. NN 6 is the browser with the most serious display problems that I know of, but I've never encountered anything that serious before.

Try it in different browsers, and even different versions of the same browser. You may even find that it is a known bug.

If all that fails, post the code and/or a URL to a live version.

Hope this helps,

Dan