Layers demo

Anyone know of any good beginners guide to layers online, preferably with
examples of form elements (initially populated from a database) updating the
parent page?

I have the basic functionality working with a popup window and
'opener.document.form1', but this doesn't look that good and I can't get it
to fill anything but a form element on the parent page.

Thanks in advance
Iain

Iain Downie wrote:

Anyone know of any good beginners guide to layers online, preferably with
examples of form elements (initially populated from a database) updating
the parent page?

I have the basic functionality working with a popup window and
'opener.document.form1', but this doesn't look that good and I can't get
it to fill anything but a form element on the parent page.

It is unclear what are you asking for. "Layer" is a term used for
positioned block elements. "opener" is a property of Window objects
that refers to the Window object with the document where the code
resides that opened the current window. document.form1, which is
proprietary and should be replaced by the standards compliant
*and* downwards compatible document.forms['form1'], refers to
an (HTML)Form(Element) host object of the UAs DOM.

What have they to do with one another?


PointedEars

Iain Downie wrote:

Anyone know of any good beginners guide to layers online, preferably
with examples of form elements (initially populated from a database)
updating the parent page?

Are you looking for something like that?
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/layers.html

(just found it in google; keywords were: JavaScript layer tutorial)

"Andre Herbst" <moorkonig (AT) compuserve (DOT) de> wrote

Iain Downie wrote:
Anyone know of any good beginners guide to layers online, preferably
with examples of form elements (initially populated from a database)
updating the parent page?


Are you looking for something like that?
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/layers.html

(just found it in google; keywords were: JavaScript layer tutorial)

Sort of, thanks. I'm after something with specific form examples (see
original request). Everything I found using google (Javascript, form, layers
etc.) returned pages that are fantastic if you want an image to
appear/disappear, but I can't find any form references or examples.

Iain

Hi
I am having troulbe understanding what you want.
Do you want to create a layer with a form in it?
Do you want to fill the form with data from the parent document?

Before you can find something you must know what you're looking for....

Try my examples on forms
http://www.caoxuan.com/cxk/webart/go...ndexForms.html
and an example of layer and form in it
http://www.caoxuan.com/cxk/webart/goodies/sel2sel2.html


Kien


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Iain Downie wrote:
Anyone know of any good beginners guide to layers online, preferably
with examples of form elements (initially populated from a database)
updating the parent page?


Are you looking for something like that?
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/layers.html

(just found it in google; keywords were: JavaScript layer tutorial)

Sort of, thanks. I'm after something with specific form examples (see
original request). Everything I found using google (Javascript, form, layers
etc.) returned pages that are fantastic if you want an image to
appear/disappear, but I can't find any form references or examples.

Iain