Richard, Thanks for your response. Your advice works great in IE, but in Netscape when I increase the height of the inline <div> it does not push down the part of the page below it: the inline <div> just expands down, overlapping it. Is there any way to get it to behave the way IE behaves? Thanks again, Jonah PS: How about this for a workaround. Write the entire page's HTML content to a JavaScript string variable, and then let the entire page be a single <div>, whose html we set to the string. Then any dynamic modifications are guaranteed to be bross-browser. Not too elegant, but what do you think? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Bennett Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 1:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Help] relatively positioned layers--creation and deletion to keep things simple, you could take the Glen Deas example, relative positioning, and change the inline div to this: <div id="layer1" style="position:relative; overflow: hidden;"> Now if you do layer1.setSize(1,1) the rest of the text moves up - BUT, guess which browser doesn't support this... So the hard way would be: If your inline div doesn't contain any text, you can make it small, and the rest of the page follows, but, a div always includes a linebreak, so the minimum size is one line height. you would use the inline div to get it's x,y coords, and position another div showing the text at that place, you can increase the inline div's height to move the rest of the page down. By changing the div to a span, you get around the minimum one line height problem, but you have to edit inline.js to look for spans instead of divs. In answer to the difference between cloning you asked offline, the cloned one uses the inline div to hold the same text as is inline, and displays itself over the other text, it doesn't move the rest of the page , and cannot be changed in size etc: <div id="layer1" style="position:absolute; visibility:hidden">This is a test.</div>This is a test blah blah Richard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dynapi-Help" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 11 June, 2001 20:44 Subject: [Dynapi-Help] relatively positioned layers--creation and deletion > I am looking for a way to make relatively positioned layers act as though > they were being created and deleted--that is, actually dissappear and > reappear from the flow of the page, but can find only two unsatisfactory > options. Setting the visibility on and off makes the layer appear and > reappear, but leaves unwanted blank space when the layer is invisible. > Actually deleting the layer gets rid of the blank space, but also (as far as > I can tell) deletes the layer from memory, so that I can't get it back. Is > there a way to get the effect of a deletion and then bring a layer back when > it's relatively positioned? > > Thanks, > Jonah > > > _______________________________________________ > Dynapi-Help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dynapi-help > _______________________________________________ Dynapi-Help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dynapi-help _______________________________________________ Dynapi-Help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dynapi-help
