Apex 4 Theme 20- Modern Blue IR Issue in IE8

Question

The DHTML drop down on the magnifying glass icon to the left of the search does not display in IE 8. It seems to "hide behind" some other element.
Works well in FF.
Tried on a number of PC, consistly fails on IE8 and works in FF.
Is it an issue in our setup of IE8 or is it related to the theme?
Any suggestions or fixes?
Regards,

Answer 1

Hi,
The issue you have reported is a known issue - http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/html/4.0_known_issues.html - tracked with bug number 9893492. When running Internet Explorer and using themes that are not running in standards-compliant mode, the column search drop-down is cut off after a few pixels.
Workaround:
Switch to one of the new, modernized themes in APEX 4.0, which are running in standards-compliant mode. Note that this will alter the look of the application. A patch for the older themes will be prepared.
If you prefer not to update your application's theme, an alternative workaround is available. This is to add the following CSS snippet to either of the 2 places listed below the snippet:
<style type="text/css">
  #apexir_TOOLBAR_OPEN, #apexir_TOOLBAR_CLOSE {
    overflow: visible;
</style>option 1. In your page template, in the 'Header' section, just before the closing </head> tag.
option 2. If you don't want to change your page template you can add it to page 0 in your application. You can do this by adding a 'HTML' region, with 'No Template' selected with a 'Region Source' equal to the snippet. Note: If your application does not contain a page 0 already, you will need to create it.
Regards,
Hilary