Menu appearing behind jquery div

I have a menu that up until today worked fine. In IE7, the menu appears behind a div that holds a jquery carousel. I have played with z-indexes, but to no avail. Works fine in IE8, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. Not sure what to do.

The page is:
pictures.php?EventID=263

in the CSSMenuWriter/cssmw/menu.css file, change:

ul#cssmw {
  background-image: url("../cssmw_images/bg.png");
  background-repeat: repeat-x;
  cursor: default;
  height: 30px;
  list-style-type: none;
  margin: 0 0 0 0;
  padding: 0 25px 0 25px;
}

to:

ul#cssmw {
  background-image: url("../cssmw_images/bg.png");
  background-repeat: repeat-x;
  cursor: default;
  height: 30px;
  list-style-type: none;
  margin: 0 0 0 0;
  padding: 0 25px 0 25px;
  position: relative;
  z-index: 1000;
}

Thanks you worked perfectly!

you're welcome.

I have a similar problem with the drop down menu displaying behind an embedded pdf document, your fix above doesn't work in this case. It works OK in Firefox but not in IE, Chrome or Safari.

touch_to_cook.htm

this is a problem with using an embedded PDF.

the embedded PDF is not natively supported in most browsers and will rely on a third party plug in to be installed.
to embed the PDF, you need to use the <object> tag. Put bluntly, the object tag punches a whole through the page layout. CSS styling and DOM layering cannot be applied to the object tag.

There is no standards compliant why to embed a pdf document into a web page that work in all browsers.

the only work around i can think of would be to add the PDF to flash object, when embedding a flash object, there is the wmode transparent option to help work around z-index layering issues with flash.

Thanks for the heads up Jason, I thought I would post the solution I came up with just in case anyone else is struggling with this issue. I used a "Google docs viewer" embedded in the page using an iframe. Take a look at the results:

touch_to_cook.htm

To generate the code required just go to:

viewer

The dropdown menu now overlays the pdf document in the latest versions of IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera & Safari.