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: ...

SPECIAL NOTE:

Few of the links previously herein still went where they did (if anywhere) when this was first written. All necessary missing files and more can be downloaded in the current distribution archive:

extrabuttonsdistro.zip

Most recent additions - graceful integration with Ultimate Fade In Slideshow (2.6.1)'s new swipe feature, bug fixes to the original fadeslideshow.js script as noted in the included fadeslideshow.js file's comments section. Also included ...

Updated 03-08-2016 at 04:47 AM by jscheuer1 (include updated files and explanations of same)

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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 07-08-2014 at 04:50 PM by jscheuer1 (add update for more recent jQuery versions)

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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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