[thelist] Slide show with html tex

[Jono Young]

You have hit the nail on the head as far as understanding my dilemma, and
have given me good info to look into.  I am unfortunately new to Javascript,
but I am very resourceful, and I will look into your suggestions and see if
I can make it work.  I am also new to implementing <div> </div>  tags, so
this is all going to be a huge learning process. I am taking all
considerations into account and trying to choose the best route.
Thanks!

On 10/14/03 10:13 PM, "Diane Soini" <dianesoini at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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:

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