Basically, you're screwed. Atlas uses movable Divs to implement D&D - which exist in "layers". You can force a div to a higher layer by tweaking it's z-index attrib (or z-order, can never remember). This applies to all HTML controls......except that the DDL is implemented not as a HTML ctrl, but as a WINDOW - which always exists in front of everything else. The only way around it would be to hide the ddls and re-instate when dropping, but this looks naff "Now I guess I'll sit back and watch people misinterpret what I just said......" Christian Graus At The Soapbox