[thelist] Dreamweaver Show/Hide Layers flicker problem

Tue Oct 14 03:34:23 CDT 2003

on 14/10/03 9:31 am, Francois Jordaan at Francois.Jordaan at wheel.co.uk wrote:

> The other day I had to show/hide layers (CSS DIVs) for a rollover effect.
> Because my javascript knowledge is basic, I used Dreamweaver for the job. It
> works fine, except there's an ugly flicker effect when the cursor overlaps
> the floating layer. (The trigger link and the floating layer partially
> overlap.) I searched the Macromedia DW Forums, but found no solution.

You can solve that by not nesting the layers. Put both divs in the page as
such

<body>
<div id="button">
</div>
<div id="info">
</div>

You can get really nasty fx with nested layers

HTH
mikek

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