Hello All,

First of all, as a new jQuery lister, I'd like to thank you all for such 
a great community project resulting in a fantastic js toolset. I love 
great community driven projects (they make me feel all warm and fuzzy 
inside :) ).

Anyway, after a long search with no answer, I have question for you.

Scenario:
 - Multiple portlets (jsr-168) on a page, each being a disparate 
application.
 - Most operating as ajax clients
 - Some possibly designed as semi-real-time/server synchronized 
applications (which means they have an internal clock which is kept in 
sync with the server so that the events of many clients are performed 
within a synchronous envelop, this is to account for network latencies 
and such). Hope that's clear enough.

Furthermore, some operations in the UI may take considerable time to 
execute (sorts, filters, ajax calls, etc...).

The Problem:
 - I need a solution to "block/blur" specific areas of the page, a whole 
portlet maybe, or maybe even a portion of a portlet, without blocking 
other applications or areas of the page.

For example, if I had a div#divA which contains "whatever" dynamic 
content, maybe a form, maybe some clickables, sortables, etc.. but I 
want one of these time consuming operations to "block/blur" only this 
one div#divA using a translucent onion skin, when the event is executing 
and "unblock/unblur" on completion.

It would be virtually the same as say the blockUI plugin, but for a 
specific div.

Do you think this is doable? I've been trying for a couple of days, just 
with standard js/css and can't get it right in both FF and IE, it seems 
to be either/or...
Note that the scrollable div in IE seems to often defeat the overlays 
I've tried, once the scroll bar appears...

Ideas?

Thanks,

-- 
Raymond Auge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Software Engineer
Liferay, Inc.
Enterprise. Open Source. For Life.


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