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<DIV><FONT size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I am new to the group. I know a little about JavaScript,
but not all that much.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I have made a multi-language Christian song index. Here
is the URL, so that folks can look and see what I am talking about: <A
href="http://www.volstate.net/~fisher/hymnintl">http://www.volstate.net/~fisher/hymnintl</A>
The top frame has alphabet buttons that show the first letters of the songs
in the chosen language that are in the index. With English, for example,
all the letters except X are displayed, because there are English songs that
begin with every letter except X. I don't think this works in Netscape,
however, because I don't know how to make the buttons disappear in
Netscape. Perhaps I could use some other technique in Netscape to indicate
that certain letters are not available.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>To include Russian, I wanted to use the same set of buttons,
but just change the letter that was displayed. I tried changing the
"Value" associated with the button, but this didn't work. I tried loading
a different htm into the top frame, but I didn't manage. Finally, I
created a set of buttons that will show only when the language chosen uses
the Cyrillic alphabet. So, if you choose Russian (and perhaps in the
future Bulgarian, Ukrainian or Serbian), the Roman alphabet disappears and the
Cyrillic one becomes visible. But, if you choose a language like English
that uses the Roman alphabet, the Cyrillic one disappears. In order to
make the additional set of buttons visible I had to increase the size of the top
window, which decreases the size of the bottom window.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>So far, it works pretty well, except that my HTML editor
doesn't like my command to display Russian, which is: </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> <META http_equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html" charset="ISO-8859-5"></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>However, this is the only command I have discovered that makes
Internet Explorer display Russian consistently. I tried using a different one I
found, that included charset as part of content. HoTMetaL liked that
command, but Internet Explorer did strange things with it. Would Unicode
apply to my situation, and if so, how do you use it?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>If I want to include other alphabets later on, such as
Korean, Hebrew or Arabic, and if I still can not change the display on the
buttons, and still can not load a different htm into the top frame, and don't
want to make the top frame any larger, is there a way to make scroll bar on the
top frame programmatically scroll down to the alphabet buttons for the related
language?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Thanks in advance for any help.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Alvin Fisher</DIV></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Right now, I have </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>