[OpenLayers-Users] Overlapping CSS controls on the Map Window

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 05:36:17AM -0700, Bill Thoen wrote:
> I tried to create a CSS-based form and for lack of screen real estate I 
> put it over the OpenLayers-controlled map window. But even though my 
> form was visible and on top, the onclick event I had attached to one of 
> its buttons never got the focus. It seems that OpenLayers controls all 
> the "airspace" over its map window, intercepting all the mouse activity.

Are your divs *inside* the map div

 <div id="map">
   <div id="yourcontrol"></div>
 </div>  

Or outside?

It souds like the former; I would recommend that the latter will
probably not suffer the same difficulty.

> Is it possible to set it so that I can have all mouse activity in my 
> form window seen by my form first? I would need to do this for drop-down 
> CSS menus too, if they overlap the map window. Or am I trying to do 
> something unreasonable?
> 
> - Bill Thoen
> 
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