CKEditor maximized appears below select element in IE6

[Wiktor Walc]

To reproduce, add

<select name="foo"><option value="bar">bar</option></select>

above

<label for="editor1">

in replacebycode sample.

In IE6 when CKEditor is maximized, select box appears above CKEditor. It works correctly in FF or IE8 (select box is invisible and only there is only CKEditor on the whole screen).

[Michael Bu]

Hope this could be fixed soon as most of our users are still on IE6.

[Garry Yao]

We're free of bug in v2 because of the implicit iframe shim. It's a shame that we still have to work on this in 2010 after IE6's funeral.

[Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo]

Besides <select> also plugins can leak through a div, so the solution is to use a shim iframe (also for the dialog cover).

Taking into account the problem with flash movies, maybe the iframe should be generated for all the browsers?

[Garry Yao]

I'm providing a patch here, but it sometimes crash the browser for me, not sure if it's only happened in my IE6.

[Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo]

Please, don't use CSS expressions as they are known to have a very poor performance. And if it has crashed the browser in a few tests, you can be sure that people that use the editor everyday with IE6 will face the crash, so that must be fixed before requesting review. Having a <select> in the middle of the editor is ugly, having a crash means that all my data has been lost.

[Garry Yao]

You're right but I'm not sure whether the crash problem is caused by CSS expressions, anyway let's try in another more unobtrusive way.

[Garry Yao]

Fixed with [5392].