[thelist] Slide show with html tex

[Diane Soini]

The problem is that it is easy to script an image tag to change its src 
on a timer, but more difficult to change the text. You can do it a 
number of ways. One is to use the innerHTML property of a div tag or p 
tag. Just give it an id, like <div id="caption"></div> then use 
document.getElementById('caption').innerHTML = "my new caption text"; 
You'll have to rewrite the script a little so that it not only switches 
the image, but it also switches the text, and you should put your 
captions in an array, each caption matching the same index as the 
corresponding image.

This technique will work ok for newer browsers, but if you want it to 
work for Netscape 4 then you'll have to work a little harder and maybe 
use layers and some browser detection. I'm not a real expert on layers 
and Netscape 4. I've decided to forget worrying about NS4 anymore. But 
from what I understand, you can use a div tag as a layer, and 
layers['divname'].document.write('caption content') or something like 
that. Or maybe you have to make a bunch of hidden layers and set the 
next caption layer to visible and hide the previous one. If you have a 
little javascript knowledge and access to some helpful web sites or a 
good book, you can probably figure something out.

Diane

On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 02:55 PM, 
thelist-request at lists.evolt.org wrote:

>
> That is along the line of what I am looking for.  You can do it with 
> images
> - JPG, GIF etc, but I am not sure how to do it to regular html text 
> that is
> in a sell below the cell that the image is in.  I think I posted this
> earlier, but here's What I did previously: