That will sort of work, assuming there's nothing else positioned that has a higher z-index that will cover the slideshow. It will also take the book flip out of the flow of the page potentially covering other stuff. Oh and using 'center' of any type in HTML or CSS is not the way to center anything other than text. It can be used for other things sometimes, but is prone to failure for various reasons.
Now this might not work on your page, it could conflict with the page's existing layout. It will center the slideshow within its container. If there are problems like that, to really help you with this, we would need a link to the page or it's complete source code. A link would be best.
That said, it would be better to do:
Code:
<div id="Book" style="position:relative; width: 284px; height: 227px; margin: 0 auto;">
</div>
Important things with this approach:
- No transparent placeholder is required since we are now creating the required layout space via the division's dimensions.
- Those dimensions are as instructed by the script. Width is 2 times the Book_Image_Width + 4. Height is the Book_Image_Height + 2.
- Requires a standards invoking DOCTYPE to work in IE.
Demo:
http://home.comcast.net/~jscheuer1/s...p_centered.htm
Notes: Incidentally the demo page on Dynamic Drive doesn't follow the script's recommendations for the width dimension. But that doesn't matter because the Dynamic Drive demo page has nothing to the right of the book flip.
The script can go in the head of the page, only the markup needs to be in the body.
Demo code:
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<script type="text/javascript">
/***********************************************
* Book Flip slideshow script- (c) Ger Versluis 2003
* Permission granted to DynamicDrive.com to feature script
* This notice must stay intact for use
* Visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ for full source code
***********************************************/
/********************************************************
Create a div with transparent place holder in your html
<div id="Book" style="position:relative">
<img src="placeholder.gif" width="144" height="227">
</div>
width = 2*book image width +4 height = book image height+2
Insert onload in body tag
<body onload="ImageBook()">
*********************************************************/
// 7 variables to control behavior
var Book_Image_Width=140;
var Book_Image_Height=225;
var Book_Border=true;
var Book_Border_Color="gray";
var Book_Speed=15;
var Book_NextPage_Delay=1500; //1 second=1000
var Book_Vertical_Turn=0;
// array to specify images and optional links. At least 4
// If Link is not needed keep it ""
Book_Image_Sources=new Array(
"photo1.jpg","http://www.dynamicdrive.com",
"photo2.jpg","http://www.javascriptkit.com",
"photo3.jpg","", //this slide isn't linked
"photo4.jpg","http://www.codingforums.com" // NOTE No comma after last line
);
/***************** DO NOT EDIT BELOW **********************************/
var B_LI,B_MI,B_RI,B_TI,B_Angle=0,B_CrImg=6,B_MaxW,B_Direction=1;
var B_MSz,B_Stppd=false;B_Pre_Img=new Array(Book_Image_Sources.length);
function ImageBook(){
if(document.getElementById){
for(i=0;i<Book_Image_Sources.length;i+=2){
B_Pre_Img[i]=new Image();B_Pre_Img[i].src=Book_Image_Sources[i]}
Book_Div=document.getElementById("Book");
B_LI=document.createElement("img");Book_Div.appendChild(B_LI);
B_RI=document.createElement("img");Book_Div.appendChild(B_RI);
B_MI=document.createElement("img");Book_Div.appendChild(B_MI);
B_LI.style.position=B_MI.style.position=B_RI.style.position="absolute";
B_LI.style.zIndex=B_RI.style.zIndex=0;B_MI.style.zIndex=1;
B_LI.style.top=(Book_Vertical_Turn?Book_Image_Height+1:0)+"px";
B_LI.style.left=0+"px";
B_MI.style.top=0+"px";
B_MI.style.left=(Book_Vertical_Turn?0:Book_Image_Width+1)+"px";
B_RI.style.top=0+"px";
B_RI.style.left=(Book_Vertical_Turn?0:Book_Image_Width+1)+"px";
B_LI.style.height=Book_Image_Height+"px";
B_MI.style.height=Book_Image_Height+"px";
B_RI.style.height=Book_Image_Height+"px";
B_LI.style.width=Book_Image_Width+"px";
B_MI.style.width=Book_Image_Width+"px";
B_RI.style.width=Book_Image_Width+"px";
if(Book_Border){
B_LI.style.borderStyle=B_MI.style.borderStyle=B_RI.style.borderStyle="solid";
B_LI.style.borderWidth=1+"px";
B_MI.style.borderWidth=1+"px";
B_RI.style.borderWidth=1+"px";
B_LI.style.borderColor=B_MI.style.borderColor=B_RI.style.borderColor=Book_Border_Color}
B_LI.src=B_Pre_Img[0].src;
B_LI.lnk=Book_Image_Sources[1];
B_MI.src=B_Pre_Img[2].src;
B_MI.lnk=Book_Image_Sources[3];
B_RI.src=B_Pre_Img[4].src;
B_RI.lnk=Book_Image_Sources[5];
B_LI.onclick=B_MI.onclick=B_RI.onclick=B_LdLnk;
B_LI.onmouseover=B_MI.onmouseover=B_RI.onmouseover=B_Stp;
B_LI.onmouseout=B_MI.onmouseout=B_RI.onmouseout=B_Rstrt;
BookImages()}}
function BookImages(){
if(!B_Stppd){
if(Book_Vertical_Turn){
B_MSz=Math.abs(Math.round(Math.cos(B_Angle)*Book_Image_Height));
MidOffset=!B_Direction?Book_Image_Height+1:Book_Image_Height-B_MSz;
B_MI.style.top=MidOffset+"px";
B_MI.style.height=B_MSz+"px"}
else{ B_MSz=Math.abs(Math.round(Math.cos(B_Angle)*Book_Image_Width));
MidOffset=B_Direction?Book_Image_Width+1:Book_Image_Width-B_MSz;
B_MI.style.left=MidOffset+"px";
B_MI.style.width=B_MSz+"px"}
B_Angle+=Book_Speed/720*Math.PI;
if(B_Angle>=Math.PI/2&&B_Direction){
B_Direction=0;
if(B_CrImg==Book_Image_Sources.length)B_CrImg=0;
B_MI.src=B_Pre_Img[B_CrImg].src;
B_MI.lnk=Book_Image_Sources[B_CrImg+1];
B_CrImg+=2}
if(B_Angle>=Math.PI){
B_Direction=1;
B_TI=B_LI;
B_LI=B_MI;
B_MI=B_TI;
if(Book_Vertical_Turn)B_MI.style.top=0+"px";
else B_MI.style.left=Book_Image_Width+1+"px";
B_MI.src=B_RI.src;
B_MI.lnk=B_RI.lnk;
setTimeout("Book_Next_Delay()",Book_NextPage_Delay)}
else setTimeout("BookImages()",50)}
else setTimeout("BookImages()",50)}
function Book_Next_Delay(){
if(B_CrImg==Book_Image_Sources.length)B_CrImg=0;
B_RI.src=B_Pre_Img[B_CrImg].src;
B_RI.lnk=Book_Image_Sources[B_CrImg+1];
B_MI.style.zIndex=2;
B_LI.style.zIndex=1;
B_Angle=0;
B_CrImg+=2;
setTimeout("BookImages()",50)}
function B_LdLnk(){if(this.lnk)window.location.href=this.lnk}
function B_Stp(){B_Stppd=true;this.style.cursor=this.lnk?"pointer":"default"}
function B_Rstrt(){B_Stppd=false}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="ImageBook();">
<div id="Book" style="position:relative; width: 284px; height: 227px; margin: 0 auto;">
</div>
</body>
</html>
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Book Flip Slideshow - how to center
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