basic drop menu

i have made a basic drop down menu...
however when it drops, i cannot seem to stop it being affected by what is underneath..there happens to be a hyperlinked picture which it covers...and the url of that picture shows up in the status bar...and the pointer turns to a hand, even though its hidden by the menu

any help would be appreciated

 

You got a link to a test/demo page we can see, dude?

 

ok..i just made this

if you drop down the menu on the left...the url for the cuba picture shows up....and the pointer changes to a hand, and 'I' when over text, it should just be a pointer all the time.

it you use the one on the right..the url for the pizza place shows up...etc

 

Hmmm.... seems to be working OK in FireFox 1.0.6 D) but in IE... the 2nd, 3rd and 4th, right over the cuba.jpg/link are affected... *looks at the code, thinking of a layer issue, maybe...*

 

do i have to set up some kind of layer for the drop menu?

and yeh, i use IE

 

Well I just changed the tablez7 id to include a z-index of zero (which I believe is the top layer... been a while since I used layers) and that's not working... BTW the right-hand-side also works strangely if you place the cursor directly over the underlying ad (drift left on the pull-down...)

I'm just wracking my brains to see if there's a better method of implementing the list-menu thingy... it's late...

Don't worry about not using FireFox since approx 90% of people will be using IE anyway

 

tell me about it , doing anything at 4am sucks. (also in the UK) !!

 

it appears that there is a problem with running 2 javascript items on this page, i figured out that if i delete the marquee...the drop menus work fine

any ideas what i have to do to get both working at the same time
~not much of a javascript expert~