IE6, z-index and the problem with building nests

Came across a nasty little bug today1 whereby IE6 incorrectly displays a nested, z-index’d div below the content it is supposed to be above.

For the uninitiated, z-index basically makes your two dimensional screen three dimensional by adding a Z-axis. If you’re not sure what a z-axis is then pay more attention in geometry class.

So anyway, it turned out the issue was to do with some Javascript rather than the folling solution found on agum.com but this may come in use one day…

An article entitled CSS: z-index – so what appears on top?.

1 This was actually quite some time ago now but I just found the link carelessly lying around in my draft box.