[thelist] Slide show with html text

Jono Young Jono at brookgroup.com
Wed Oct 15 09:04:41 CDT 2003


Pete,

This sounds too good to be true.  So the code you have suggested will rotate
image 1 (img1.gif) to image 2 (img2.gif) and, at the same time, the html
text below image 1, will be replace it with the new html text for the second
image (img2.gif), and so one through all of the images?  It would be nice to
see the example link that you have.  I put this link out earlier, but take a
look here - <http://www.synderhomesusa.com>  The slide show here is exactly
what I need, except I need to add/place a paragraph of text below each image
and have it rotate with each image to the correct paragraph of text for each
image.  Each image owns a paragraph of text that needs to display under it
for as long as the image is displayed.

Thanks,

On 10/14/03 5:50 PM, "Peter Smulders" <schmolle at pobox.com> wrote:

> Hi Jono,
> 
>> I need to make a slide show - containing 3 images with html text captions -
>> with an image at the top, and a caption below each image.  I would like to
>> pause the slide show for 9 seconds on each image and caption.
> 
> With some amazement I have read the suggestions of other people for this
> problem (which included downloading an obscure language actually meant
> for proprietary hardware and an utterly different platform).
> 
> Unless I have completely missed the point, will the HTML below not do
> the trick? It will work in even the oldest of browsers, no dependancies
> whatshowever.
> 
> ---cut here----
> 
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="9; url=slide2.html">
> </head>
> </body>
> <img src="img1.gif">
> <p>Text for image 1</p>
> </body>
> </html>
> 
> ---cut here---
> 
> Note that this is the HTML (without any sort of niceties) for
> slide1.html, refering to slide2.html as the next one. Obviously set the
> last one in the sequence to have the first one as the 'url' in the
> 'meta' tag.
> 
> 
> For four slides (or even up to a dozen), hand coding, copying and a bit
> of editing is feasible. If you need more than this, then automatically
> generating the pages is no big deal either.
> 
> 
> If you want different speeds, you could maintain two parallel sequences,
> such as Slide1-9secs.html, Slide1-3secs.html, Slide2-9secs.html,
> Slide2-3secs.html, etc, and link from the one to the other.
> 
> If have done this to create an auto-generated slide show in pure HTML
> using a Cygwin bash script. (proving it can be done and yes, I would be
> happy to send it to you)
> 
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Schmolle

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