Yes this is very off topic. However I will try to answer you anyway. It sounds like what you are trying to do will require using advanced CSS1( Cascading Style Sheets 1) positioning with DHTML( Dynamic HTML ). I think using IE IFRAMES or NAV Layers will do the trick. Cheers Chris Ted Hilts wrote: > First, I apologise if this off topic subject causes a problem for > anyone. > > I'm polling all the lists to which I belong in the hopes there is > someone who has an answer to my problem. > > I need to provide on a served web page dozens of URL anchors that when > clicked result in a quarter screen mini web page which overlays part of > the web page containing the anchor URL that was clicked. Therefore, the > original web page remains intact. Frames does not appear to be the > answer because it appears I can only have 2 frames on a web page and I > cannot dedicate an entire slice of the web page to a frame that may not > get used. This feature has to work on both MS Internet Explorer as well > as Netscape Communicator/Navigator. BTW. Every now and then when running > Navigator such a screen slowly appears and fills with advertising but > this does not appear to work with MS Internet Explorer and I have not > been able to pin down the situation that gives rise to the quarter > screen box. > > Think of the problem as a web page containing text where specially > marked text requires an explanation/definition so that when this > specially marked text is clicked up comes the quarter screen box with > the explanatory information or definition. The box can be left there, > dragged to a differen't spot on the screen, or disposed off. Several > such boxes may be required on the screen at the same time. > > I'm looking for a simple and fast way of this happenning. The content > of the box would be another web page provided by the web page server in > response to clicking on the specially marked text. > > I suspect that some kind of embedded script within the HTML is required > but am hoping that I have missed something obvious about HTML such as > being able to bring up a sized web page (sized smaller than the first > web page) on top of the first web page. > > Hope this off topic is not much of a bother to the uninterested. > > Bye-thanks_TED > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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