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The 'iframe shim technique' lets us overlay a div over windowed elements such as flash objects, select boxes and applets. The trick is to have the div accompanied by an iframe that must have exactly the same size and position as the div, whose z-index must be higher than the iframe's z-index. The windowed element itself must have a lower z-index and the iframe should have a background-color. Here's an example of how to have a div overlay a flash object:

<iframe style="position: ...

IE8 has yet to formally launch, though the Beta and RC releases have been available for download for developers and those curious already. The advent of a new browser always brings up new issues with compatibility, and IE8 beta is no different. I've gotten quite a few emails lately regarding a DHTML script or CSS code not quite working properly in the new browser. A handful of scripts on DD fall into this group. I plan on eventually checking all scripts on DD for IE8 once it's officially released, ...

Just a quick welcome to the new DD Blog! Currently the following usergroups have permission to post in the Blog:

- Senior Members
- Elite Members
- Mods and Admin

All other members have permission to read the blog and post comments to an entry. Personally I'll be using the Blog mainly to post modifications to DD related Scripts asked by members on the forums and that could benefit the general audience as well.

For the above 3 usergroups ...

The DOM lets you dynamically create and add elements to the page, such as the following, which creates an image on the fly and adds it to the end of the document:

Code:

var img=document.createElement("img")
img.setAttribute('src', 'dd.gif')
document.body.appendChild(img)

Ideally such an operation should be done after the document has loaded, though in most browsers, I noticed you can get away with it. In IE6 and IE7, however, things get a lot more ...

Original Script: Featured Content Slider v2.4

Changes: The following modified .js file causes the script to pause the rotating of each slide (in auto mode) whenever the user rolls the mouse over the Slider or the pagination links, and resume playing onMouseout.

Usage: Just replace the original .js file with the modified one.

Attached Files

• contentslider.js (10.9 KB, 5762 views)