molendijk

It's not directly obvious from this how we can:
- start a movie on page load (question asked by some people on different forums);
- specify the dimensions and position of the movies in percentages;
- make good use of the ytplayer functions.

Autoplay: something like

Code:

function so_start()
{
loadNewVideo('lKq9_kk3Zbc', 20);
}
//IE needs some time
window.onload=setTimeout('so_start()',2000)

Size of movie in percentages ...

Updated 08-29-2009 at 01:59 PM by molendijk

Tags: 555-555-0199@example.com

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Post a JavaScript , Flash related

If we want the select box to function as a genuine menu, then a click on a given option (of the select box) must give us the same range of possibilities as does a click on the items of a normal menu. So a click should allow us to go to a new page, to open a popup window, to produce an alert etc.

We can achieve this with the help of a function that has the following general form:

Code:

var which="";
function DoSomethingWithOptionvalue(which) {
var optionValue = document.getElementById(which).options[document.getElementById(which).selectedIndex].value;

...

The Ajax Includes Script given at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...axincludes.htm uses document.write for including external content. Advantage: you don't have to explicitly bring the js belonging to the external file(s) to the main page. But beware the results in certain cases! In IE, (external) scripts added to the page using document.write are not run until after the document.write that adds them has finished. Non-IE browsers will run them straight away. So

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">

...

In the head:

Code:

<!--[if IE]>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write('<object type="text/html" id="object_id" width="0" height="0" data="menu.html"><\/object>');
onload=function(){
document.getElementById('main_page_id').innerHTML = document.getElementById('object_id').object.documentElement.innerHTML;
}
</script>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if

...

When we use the technique given below, the following happens when we click on a link (in our HTML-menu) in order to go to a new page (which may belong to a foreign domain):

• bla.html (our own domain) or h ttp://www.blabla.bla (a foreign domain) is included in a dynamically created text/html-object (non-IE) or iframe (IE) (IE doesn't correctly handle the object yet);

• the object/iframe containing the new page (bla.html or h ttp://www.blabla.bla) is automatically added to a file

...