JavaScript & Ajax

I found a fairly easy way to add optional links to the Dynamic Drive Script:

Background Image Carousel

First a demo:

BG Carousel Links - Demo

Now, how to:

Using a text only editor like NotePad, add this highlighted style as shown to the bottom of the on page styles (modified from Step 1 on the demo page):

Code:

 . . . ctedslide div.desc{ /* CSS for currently selected slide's desc div */
}

div.slide

...

In javascript there are basically two types of events that can be assigned to elements and objects. I classify them as version 4 events (those that were available in Netscape 4 and IE 4), and version 5 events, those that became available starting with IE 5 and presumably NS 5, but the earliest I'm aware of them in NS was NS 6 (I don't recall ever seeing a NS 5 browser).

Version 4 events are still available in today's browsers and are usually the first ones folks learn about, examples: ...

The product of many requests as regards Ultimate Fade-in slide show (currently at v2.4, but should work for any Ultimate Fade-in slideshow in the 2.x series) for a button to do this or that, stop or go, pause/play, and individual numbered or thumbnail buttons with or without special effects, with onclick or onmouseover for these individual buttons. This script (right click and 'save as'):

extrabuttons.js

can do any or virtually all (some things you wouldn't want to ...

Updated 10-27-2011 at 04:22 PM by jscheuer1 (add info)

Tags: extrabuttons, fade-in, slideshow, ultimate

Categories

DD Scripts Mods , Post a JavaScript , JavaScript & Ajax

The title overstates the point. Both these scripts in their latest versions are pretty darn good as are many of the other Lightbox type scripts out there (see end for two others or Google Lightbox for more, though not all are as good as those mentioned here, many including the original Lightbox mentioned in the title of this blog entry are).

Here's the real story -

Some time ago Dynamic Drive's Lightbox by Lokesh Dhakar was added to the Dynamic Drive official scripts. ...

Updated 02-29-2012 at 12:54 AM by jscheuer1 (add info)

Tags: jquery, lightbox, slimbox

Categories

DD Scripts Mods , Post a JavaScript , JavaScript & Ajax , Web Design issues

The Sticky Tooltip script has some room for updating as I've outlined here:

Sticky Tooltip script - not sticky

and here:

Sticky Tooltip script - no dock in IE 7- for image map

In those threads I offer piecemeal solutions, the first of which above is the most problematic:

Originally Posted by jscheuer1

Even on the demo page, if the tip is in sticky mode and one mouses over one of the other triggers, the tip changes position and content. Also in sticky mode,

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