title: why does a dropdown combobox list (select html tag) disappear very quickly in IE 7 but works fine in firefox
body: <p>i have a combobox and its on a narrow part of a webpage. below is my dropdown html.  </p>
  
  <p>THe issue is that in IE 7 only (works fine in firefox) after i click on the dropdown, the list of items pops up and i go to click on an item in the list and it disappears before i get a chance to click.</p>
  
  <p>It seems to work fine in IE8 as well but in IE7 (most of my users) no one has time to click before the list disappears.</p>
  
  <pre><code>      &lt;select id="staticData"&gt;
            &lt;option value=""&gt;(Please select)&lt;/option&gt;
               &lt;optgroup label="Geographical"&gt;
                  &lt;option value="B"&gt;United states of AMerica&lt;/option&gt;
                  &lt;option value="C"&gt;Europe&lt;/option&gt;
                  &lt;option value="D"&gt;Asia&lt;/option&gt;
               &lt;/optgroup&gt;
               &lt;optgroup label="Related"&gt;
                   &lt;option value="RoadmapItem"&gt;Roadmap items&lt;/option&gt;
               &lt;/optgroup&gt;
       &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>