[Webdev] DHTML etc.

Lee Hosty hostyle at csn.ul.ie
Fri Jun 7 11:52:43 IST 2002


At 11:19 AM 07/06/2002 +0100, John P. Looney wrote:
>  I was wondering - anyone know how DHTML works ? My understanding is a
>little limited in that I'm not sure how the DOM works, and the docs are
>really complex, so I'll leave it till I understand a bit, before diving
>in.

Well I have a good idea how. Its best based on the DOM - a tree structure 
of all HTML elements in the page - and manipulating the CSS (and other) 
properties of those elements.

>  Say I've a page with a div called "content". I want to be able to
>reposition the div, in the same was as yer man repositions an image on
>     http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.0/demos/eagle-sun.html
>
>  However, you can click on an image. You can't click on a div. So, I was

<DIV onClick="javascript: alert(this.innerHTML)">blah</DIV>

>thinking, how about have a <h2> element in that div that I could click on.
>Can I then just give that <h2> a "title" of "windowbar", and then access

use "id" not "title" ...

>that as
>
>  content.windowbar ?

OTOH

myDIV = document.getElementById("content")
myWindowbar = document.getElementById("windowbar")

>  Most confusing all this.
>
>Kate
>
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