Feedback: Dynamic Positioning

Sent by john beardsworth on October 11, 1998 at 14:34:16: - feedback #30

Martin

I thought this was a really good article!

Do you recommend putting this sort of code into a page by first detecting the browser, then using document.write?

Regards

John

Sent by matt r on December 13, 1998 at 11:29:49: - feedback #63

This article claims that the dynamic code works on both NN4 and IE4. Ok, so it "works", but the hidden layers are displayed in different positions on each browser. Can this be rectified? Or is it just that NN and IE interpret the code in different ways? I would be very interested in your response to this.

Cheers

Matt

PS. I have both MS FrontPage 98 and Netscape Composer. When I "gave" them each the code, and saved each one, they both "altered" it slightly, but in different ways. When the respective page was viewed in the other browser, it looked stupid. (eg. layers appearing in different places).
Oh, and I love your site - extremely useful resource, thanks!

Sent by Ravindra on July 19, 1999 at 03:15:08: - feedback #312

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Dear Sir,
I just had a great time reading all the material and i sure learnt a lot of stuff. Thanx.

Sent by Peter Lloyd on February 10, 2000 at 03:52:33: - feedback #804

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Very worth reading

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Just right

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Just right

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Very useful article! I have referred to it closely whilst learning about layers. The code samples and the demos are very clear.

One question: when I resize the Netscape window, it renders some of the layers invisible. How can I get them back? I tried resetting visibility and zIndex but to no avail. The only thing I find works is to reload the whole window (using location= ...), which is rather an extreme response.

Thanks
Peter Lloyd

Sent by Glenn Brude on April 17, 2000 at 03:36:16: - feedback #1098

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Just right for me, an IT professional needing an introduction with
short but teqhnical examples.

Sent by Harry on July 17, 2000 at 08:56:55: - feedback #1499

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Very worth reading

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Too long

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Just right

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Martin,
I really found this article very useful. And I am currently attempting to use it as a basis for some tooltips in one of my pages. However I've run into a problem. The tooltips don't display over <SELECT> input boxes. I've tried fiddling with the z-index and other things but have not had any joy. Do you know any means to get this to work like this?
Thanks, Harry.

Sent by Paul Sirugo on July 29, 2000 at 16:53:20: - feedback #1551

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Great stuff!
Thanks.

Sent by michel on August 21, 2000 at 03:35:04: - feedback #1645

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I do not see example 12 do anything...

How would one make
http://www.mindpartner.se/cropped.html
work with clipping?

Michel

Sent by Ian Ornstein on September 11, 2000 at 14:58:21: - feedback #1741

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I revised example 4:
<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript" LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

</STYLE>

<A HREF="#" onMouseover="show('myLayer1')" onMouseout="hide('myLayer1')">
Move mouse pointer over this link text
</A>
<BR>
<DIV ID="myLayer1" CLASS="myStyle">
<TABLE style="margin-left:20;" BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC">
<TR>
<TD>
This text is hidden from view.
<BR>
It is revealed when the mouse
<BR>
moves over the 1st link text
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</DIV>
<BR>
<BR>
<A HREF="#" onMouseover="show('myLayer2')" onMouseout="hide('myLayer2')">
Move mouse pointer over this link text
</A>
<BR>
<DIV ID="myLayer2" CLASS="myStyle">
<TABLE style="margin-left:20;" BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC">
<TR>
<TD>
This text is also hidden from view until it is<BR>
revealed when the mouse moves over the 2nd link text
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</DIV>

Sent by Lisa on November 24, 2000 at 17:54:29: - feedback #2059

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Excellent Article! I really like the way the article is broken down into brief sections and provides simple *working* examples with each section, to illustrate the concept being described.

irt.org is a *great* resource for development info.

Sent by Ray on May 02, 2001 at 20:41:52: - feedback #2687

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thanks for the great information

Sent by Brian Forsyth on November 29, 2001 at 11:54:23: - feedback #3386

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I'm interested in knowing how to adjust the top attribute of layers in relation to other layers.

In other words, I have two layers one positioned beneath the other. In the top one I have a block of text. In the bottom I have a picture. Problem, when more than three lines of text are added the top layer overlaps the bottom layer, covering the picture.

How can text's line count be translated into a corresponding 'top' layer value?

Sent by Sinne Rasmussen on January 05, 2002 at 22:34:16: - feedback #3455

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This was exactly what I needed, thanks!!!