Topic awaiting preservation: Visibilety and z-index

Is it posible to change the z-index of a object with javascript, and how does the visibilety function work

<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript" LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- ;

// Written by mr.maX, http://www.max.co.yu/

function getObj(name) {
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;if (document.getElementById) {
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;return document.getElementById(name).style;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;} else
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;if (document.all) {
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;return document.all[name].style;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;} else
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;if (document.layers) {
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;return document.layers[name];
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}
}

function hideLayer(name) {
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;getObj(name).visibility = "hidden";
}

function showLayer(name) {
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;getObj(name).visibility = "visible";
}

function getZIndex(name) {
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;getObj(name).zIndex;
}

function setZIndex(name, z) {
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;getObj(name).zIndex = z;
}

// -->
</SCRIPT>

Use getZIndex() and setZIndex() functions to get/set z-index value and use hideLayer() and showLayer() functions to hide/show layers...

Does it work in older version of IE and NN? . I found the function named "display" works in the same way as visiblety function i think

document.all.somthing.style.display ="block" //show
document.all.somthing.style.display ="none" //hidde

Doesn't work exactly the same. Changing it's display to 'none' makes it so if there are any other HTML elements after it in the page, they behave as though it weren't there, and fill up the space that it would take otherwise. Changing visibility would leave a hole where it was, because the other HTML elements still think it's there, so they don't fill up its space.

By the way, you're calling these things "functions":

document.all.somthing.style.display ="block"; // statement

they're actually called "statements". You can use a function in a statement, like this:

changeSomething(); // call the "changeSomething" function

Just wanted to clear up that vocabulary issue.

Max's functions should work fine in older versions of NN and IE.

Yes i know slime, i diden't fine the word
btw. congratilation with 2100 post's



[This message has been edited by Osaires (edited 09-22-2001).]

Besides differences that Slime pointed out above, you should also know that "display" CSS property doesn't work in Netscape 4...