[thelist] Setting Focus to a window

MRC webmaster at equilon-mrc.com
Mon Mar 11 12:41:01 CST 2002


Paul,

> is there a way of having a small pop up window on top of the main parent
> window - but having the small pop up window always on top but being ablt
to
> interact with the parent window below - i know its along short, its just
and
> idea I'm thinking about.

    Cross-browser, you would have to use a pseudo-popup, such as an
absolutely-positioned div that is styled to appear like a dialog. For IE 5+
only, you can use a modeless dialog [1] that behaves exactly as you
describe.

James Aylard

1.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/showmodele
ssdialog.asp





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