[thelist] vertical DHTML scroller

Jason Hepi contact at hepi.fsnet.co.uk
Wed Jul 17 18:05:01 CDT 2002


Hi all,

Does anyone know of any good DHTML resources? I've been trying to put
together a DHTML vertical news scroller for a site I'm building for Friday.
The spec is IE5x, IE6, NS6x and (insanely) NS4.x and although I've found a
few scripts which kind of work on their own - they don't behave too well
when put up against some 'document.write's and dynamically accessed DIV's I
have written to help with sizing the page on different browsers.

I have a recent build of the page where the scroller should be inserted at :
http://www.jasonhepi.com/staging/protege/
And if you view this the large red rectangle on the left of the page (under
company news) is where the scroller should be. I'd like to use absolute
positioning to specify the position of a containing DIV as there is a DIV
(ID="DOMHook") already in that position which is resized according to the
size of the browser window - this is used to force the orange image to the
base of the page (because of NS4.x I didn't want to nest the tables too
deeply or use <table height="100%"> and a CSS2 DIV layout would not have
replicated the design on NS4.x).  Once the scroller has been written to the
page it does not have to dynamically increase in height with an increase in
page height.

While writing this email its just occured to me that I may be able to move
the -

<div id="DOMHook"></div>
  <script type="text/javascript">
  <!--
  adjust();
  // -->
  </script>

code to the right of the page and still be able to resize the page - so that
just leaves the problem of finding a decent vertical scroller ! any
ideas/links ?

Also as a v.minor question - can anyone see why the rollovers at the top of
the don't seem to image swap in NS6.x (I'm using NS6.2 if that's any help).

Any help is greatly appreciated,

Jason






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