How do i make layers?

when a link is clicked on.. i dont want the whole page to reload... i want just
the main text area to change. how would i do this... i was told layers.. but i
dont have any idea what those are... and how to start them. and if anybody
could help me i would really appreciate it.

Layers are absolutely positioned divisions (<div>).
They are avaliable in the items library panel on top of your screen
(DMX2004).
You can drag a layer on your page in design view (not layout view). Then
you can position it anywhere and put anything in it.
You should go in code view, just to make sure that your Layer has not
been placed in anything else after you drag it on the page. Your Layer
should be on its own in the body code (i.e. NOT within any table or cell
tag).

Then, you can use the SHOW-HIDE Layer behavior to show or hide your
layer (which is the technique that will allow you to replace some
content (hide the layer) with some other content (show another layer)
anywhere in your page.

The idea is to have several hidden Layers, placed on top of each other
(superposed), and then links on your page that will show one of the
layers and hide the other ones. You give those links the show-hide
Layers behaviors.


FLADE0 wrote:

when a link is clicked on.. i dont want the whole page to reload... i want just
the main text area to change. how would i do this... i was told layers.. but i
dont have any idea what those are... and how to start them. and if anybody
could help me i would really appreciate it.

If it's your intention to make an entire web site on a single page by merely
showing and hiding layers, then please STEP AWAY FROM THE KEYBOARD! 8)

That's a bad idea....

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"FLADE0" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

when a link is clicked on.. i dont want the whole page to reload... i want
just
the main text area to change. how would i do this... i was told layers..
but i
dont have any idea what those are... and how to start them. and if anybody
could help me i would really appreciate it.