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hello,

it has been a long time since i didn't code javascript or cross-browser dhtml code.

can someone give me the cross-browser code that:

1)shows/hides a layer
2)gets the position of a relative (not absolute positioned element)
3)get/set coords of an absolute positioned element

thanks!
elias

Here's a very compact library that will do all of that in 1k
http://www.dithered.com/experiments/1kdhtml/



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When it comes to modern web development, thinking in terms of "layers" is nearly suicide. Your document is a complex tree of elements which interact with each other and are displayed relative to how their siblings are displayed. Make use of this. Code your document so that its structure represents the data it contains - NOT what it looks like.

From there, you can use CSS to set the initial appearance of the page, and the DOM to dynamically change its appearance. For more information, I suggest you read http://www.slimeland.com/content/articles/jsenhance/ .

A Very Informative site you have there Slime ....I gained some valuable insite there myself. Thanks for the post.

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A guestbook? Blah, no way =)