Comments on: ColdFusion 8 auto-suggest shows through other form fields

By: Willene

Willene — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:48:31 +0000

Thank you. Works like a charm in development.

By: Aidan Whitehall

Aidan Whitehall — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:16:45 +0000

Fantastic… great fix — thanks for sharing.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:00:52 +0000

This is a good fix for text input fields.
This won't fix the z order of a cfselect or select input.

A select form input control is presented to the web browser in a different way, if i remember rightly its part of the OS whilst other form controls are generated by the client browser. (Please correct me if i'm wrong).

If there is some magical code to get around this i would be most greatful.

Matt

By: Don Blaire

Don Blaire — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:00:13 +0000

The users were about to hang me over this issue. I kept telling them that Adobe will fix it. I twice reported this problem as a bug to Adobe for ColdFusion 9.

Though I could not get your script to work, the css example worked fine. Now the users are extremely happy. Thanks for this blog entry.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:35:28 +0000

Hi all,

I don't know if this will help anyone, but I was having problems with the CF added floats. I had three fields in a list intending to have one field below another. Because of the CF added floats, they were all on one line. I added an

after each datefield cfinput and it cleared up the problem:

.clear-floats {
clear: both;
}

I hope it helps someone.

By: Bud HInes

Bud HInes — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:51:22 +0000

Never mind on my question above. It turns out that I had a header ul with a position of absolute that was preventing the autosuggest results from displaying.

By: Bud HInes

Bud HInes — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:44:15 +0000

I have a slightly different issue. I tried to use autosuggest in my site header – div = header and it would not work. The Ajax debugger showed that I obtained the results I was looking for but they would not show through the autosuggest box. It appears that the autosuggest box is scrunched. I even tried this with a web page with no styling attached to the header div. I then change the div id to anything else and I could see the results of the autosuggest control. The easy answer is to move the placement of the autosuggest control. But, I want to use the autosuggest at the top of my page to search through my site. Do you have any ideas for this problem?

Thanks,
Bud

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:49:55 +0000

Great fix for IE7, FF & Safari with datefield and autosuggest… didn’t have any luck with IE6 using an autosuggest above a tag. The select tag shows thru the dropdown autosuggest list. (Changing to cfselect didn’t help either.) Any thoughts?

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:24:58 +0000

Sorry, I should add that I didn’t implement my fix just as described, but I did set the z-index to 9999 in my top date field inside the DIV, as he showed. My lower datefield, I set to 8888.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:17:24 +0000

For those interested in a solution for the datefield problem, I found a solution that works for me here: http://www.easycfm.com/forums/printthread.cfm?Forum=12&Topic=13172