dragon2309

extremely dynamic

ok, i had another think about this, i could use the above mentioned method, in fact i did, i tried it out and its not gonna cut it im afraid. Basically, the same divider is being used on 3 different places on the same page... if i use the method mentioned above the dividers are all at different heights all over the page depending on how much content is in each one of these 4 places that they are dividing. In need of help on this one, any more ideas? Thanks Dave

I would have said the best way to learn is to play, I never read books or anything, I just played about with it, sure you're not going to make anything constructive for a good few months but hey, you're learning, look up certain thigns when you need them, come to forums like this when you really get stuck. thats how i did it anyway

almost 100% definitely require some javascript for that one. give the other forum sections a shout

If it helps at all, I'm running IE7 here and it looks nearly identical to FF... but im guessing you're referring to IE6 or below (as usual) google around and have a general look into things called "condition comments" its basically a commented out piece of code but only if it fits (or doesnt fit) a given rule relating to the type of browser. dragon2309

Is it the green sections above HOME PAGE and below CONTACT that you are trying to get rid of? If so, you may try positioning the menu itself inside a div layer. You can then give the div layer a background style to mimic the green for example.

Thankyou for your reply, it certainly does make sense, and is certainly a lot more economical on those divs, haha. It definately is a possibility and I suppose would shorten render times... Although it doesnt fit with my proposed design to the client it is certainly a valid path if the current one really does turn out to be a nightmare, I'll wait for a couple more people to chip in and see if anyone has any suggestions. Thanks again, dave

there we go, live is here, not sure if its the current version, but hey, its a start - http://www.simplytrue.co.uk/v2newsite/ - dont laugh, its not MY site, i just make the damn thing.... pain in the ass it is aswell... i tell ya, choose clients well! But yeh, more on topic, dont be surprised if the CSS for the section in question is pooched, I havent worked on this for a few weeks now, so I may have left it in a bit of dis-array, lol Thanks again, dragon2309 *EDIT* - these DIV layers make up each one of those pink shiny bits (the dividers) <div id="vertdividetop"> </div> <div id="vertdividemid"> </div> <div id="vertdividebot"> </div> some CSS for you - http://www.simplytrue.co.uk/v2newsite/style1.css in particular: #vertdividetop { width: 9px; height: 77px; float: left; background-image: url('jpg/divide_top.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; } #vertdividebot { width: 9px; height: 77px; float: left; background-image: url('jpg/divide_bottom.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; } #vertdividemid { width: 9px; height: 100%; float: left; background-image: url('jpg/divide_mid_sec.jpg'); background-repeat: repeat-y; }

Hi rob, thanks for your quick reply. Mainly because its sort of a bit of eye candy, it consists of three parts, top bottom and middle, the top and bottom are static (endpoints if you will) they sort of finish it nicely, the middle part is what i want to be dynamic, and push everything else to the same height. Unless there is a way to make borders like that on the div's themselves, where say top left is static, bottom left is static and the entire left side is dynamic and stretches (background:repeat-Y ish sort of thing) Good idea, i'll get ont it now and see if theres a live version knocking about on the server. Thanks!

Hi all, got a bit of a problem here, you might need to see my source code, but I'll try and explain it first of all... Right, basically, I'll simplify it a lot, say you have a container div, then inside that you have a thin div (10px) floated left as a suedo border type thing, then to the right of that (floated left aswell) you have the beginnings of a content div, the content in this content div is dynamic, it will be changing with every page load, hence the height of this div will constantly be changing as well... In short, I need the thin DIV layer to the left to mimic the height of the content DIV constantly, so if the page loads and the content div is say 500px high, i need the small div to be 500 aswell Currently, for some reason, even if i tell the smaller div to be 100% in height, it will just sit there at a seemingly set height... I can set the height to say 500px and it will be 500px fine, it just wont adapt to the other DIV layer, even though its in the original container. Any help? Cheers, dragon

As my last thread died (and im not one to keep bumping it...) I thought I'd create a new one as the topic had drifted a bit... So, I need an image resizer/uploader/hotspotter all in one, basically, I need to create a few different sized thumbnails of different areas of one master image. So the process would be, grab the main large image, hotspot areas that need to be separate images, create images out of those areas, create thumbnails of all of those images. Any ideas on this one? Cheers, dragon2309

i would also suggest z-index, have only used it myself a couple of times. if you were to give the flash object a z-index of 2 and the menu's div a z-index of 3, for example that should sort you out. As long as the menus z index is higher than the flash object... you may need to put the flash object into a div layer and then style that if it isnt already in one.

ok, after a bit more testing, ti is possible to link the larger images in that example into a lightbox and display even larger versions of them, and it works flawlessly, i was quite impressed.... hehehe!! still have the issue of resizing and aquiring 3 different sized versions of a single image... needs help here guys/gals dragon2309

hmm, not bad, theres only a couple of issues with that solution... firstly was that i wasnt sure if you could add links to the larger images and have them still change when the iamges changed.... i just tested this and it turns out you can, so thats not an issue anymore... second issue, is that the thumbnails are made of seperate iamges, which means i would have to make the smaller ones from the larger one at a different stage, but it also still eaves me with the problem of "hotspotting" the image, to get the areas of interest... i still cant get round this one.... dragon2309

any ideas on this?