[thelist] Frame Order ( or is it?)
ahk
ahk at ahsk.com
Sat Jun 26 03:44:43 CDT 2004
HI ALL,
Thank you David for the explination. you got it right. This is very much
what I would like to do. I will give the suckerfish dropdown menu a try to
see how it works for me looks a very nice menu.
----- Original Message -----
From: <david.landy at somerfield.co.uk>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 1:37 AM
Subject: RE: [thelist] Frame Order ( or is it?)
> ahk,
>
> I'm a bit puzzled what you are actually trying to do here. Can you
explain
> more clearly? And provide a link to your (broken) page if possible? That
> would be useful for people trying to help you.
>
> Some comments on what I *think* you are trying to do:
>
> 1. If you are trying to implement a drop-down menu in css/javascript,
then
> my advice is to forget the framesets idea altogether, and put it all on
one
> page. This keeps it simple. The suckerfish dropdown menu is free and
works
> great [0].
>
> 2. Content on separate frames will never overlap, whatever you do with
index
> or z-order or anything else. You can relate to them as separate windows:
you
> can't get content in one to overlap the content of another.
>
> 3. The z-order property affects the layout order of components on a
single
> document, within one frame. It doesn't apply to to frames or framesets.
I'm
> not sure what "-index" property you are referring to.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> David
>
> [0] http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns/
>
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