Show and Hide spans in IE & Netscape

[Wesley Long]

I have been able to do some very nice effects in IE using the
span.style.display="none" and span.style.display="" javascript steps to show
and hide blocks of text with mouseclicks.

However, when I view them in Netscape, I notice that the scripts seem to
abort when they reach this step.

Does any one know what the equivalent method in Netscape might be? Better
yet, is there a cross-browser method that would work better?

I apologize if this has been discussed before, but I can't find anything in
this newsgroups current collection that applies to Netscape (other than a
reference to it being difficult to do).

I appreciate any insight you might have to share.

[shobha]

hi,

why dont you use span.style.visibility = "visible" to show or span.style.visibility
= "hidden" to hide...
this would work in both the browsers.




"Wesley Long" <wesl@burstvideo.com> wrote:
>I have been able to do some very nice effects in IE using the
>span.style.display="none" and span.style.display="" javascript steps to
show
>and hide blocks of text with mouseclicks.
>
>However, when I view them in Netscape, I notice that the scripts seem to
>abort when they reach this step.
>
>Does any one know what the equivalent method in Netscape might be? Better
>yet, is there a cross-browser method that would work better?
>
>I apologize if this has been discussed before, but I can't find anything
in
>this newsgroups current collection that applies to Netscape (other than
a
>reference to it being difficult to do).
>
>I appreciate any insight you might have to share.
>
>

[Wesley Long]

Unfortunately, setting style.visibility="hidden" will still keep the
vertical space occupied by the span, where style.display="none" will
"collapse" the area of the text where the span is, allowing information
below it (other spans that I'm showing) to slide up into its place, rather
than being positioned below a bunch of blank space.

"shobha" <shobhaiyer@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3addc2b4$1@news.devx.com...
>
> hi,
>
> why dont you use span.style.visibility = "visible" to show or
span.style.visibility
> = "hidden" to hide...
> this would work in both the browsers.
>
>
>
>
> "Wesley Long" <wesl@burstvideo.com> wrote:
> >I have been able to do some very nice effects in IE using the
> >span.style.display="none" and span.style.display="" javascript steps to
> show
> >and hide blocks of text with mouseclicks.
> >
> >However, when I view them in Netscape, I notice that the scripts seem to
> >abort when they reach this step.
> >
> >Does any one know what the equivalent method in Netscape might be?
Better
> >yet, is there a cross-browser method that would work better?
> >
> >I apologize if this has been discussed before, but I can't find anything
> in
> >this newsgroups current collection that applies to Netscape (other than
> a
> >reference to it being difficult to do).
> >
> >I appreciate any insight you might have to share.
> >
> >
>

[Nick]

Hi,
Unfortunately you are going to have a hard time doing what you are trying
to do with NN4! NN4 does not have a scriptable property to correspond to
the display style attribute, so you cannot modify this attribute on the fly(although
NN does recognize the display attribute when a page loads).

It will probably work equally in NN6 and IE but you are better off trying
to make the 'visibility' property work as another user suggested.


"Wesley Long" <wesl@burstvideo.com> wrote:
>I have been able to do some very nice effects in IE using the
>span.style.display="none" and span.style.display="" javascript steps to
show
>and hide blocks of text with mouseclicks.
>
>However, when I view them in Netscape, I notice that the scripts seem to
>abort when they reach this step.
>
>Does any one know what the equivalent method in Netscape might be? Better
>yet, is there a cross-browser method that would work better?
>
>I apologize if this has been discussed before, but I can't find anything
in
>this newsgroups current collection that applies to Netscape (other than
a
>reference to it being difficult to do).
>
>I appreciate any insight you might have to share.
>
>

[Wesley Long]

Yeah, I found that.

However, the visibility property still gives me a problem in that the
span/div may be invisible, but it still occupies space, and forces all the
elements beneath it further down vertically. That just isn't an option for
what I need to do.

I figure my best bet is now to trap the user's browser type and version and
take them to a different page for NN4.

"Nick" <webmaster@mixsite.com> wrote in message
news:3ae04b2e$1@news.devx.com...
>
> Hi,
> Unfortunately you are going to have a hard time doing what you are trying
> to do with NN4! NN4 does not have a scriptable property to correspond to
> the display style attribute, so you cannot modify this attribute on the
fly(although
> NN does recognize the display attribute when a page loads).
>
> It will probably work equally in NN6 and IE but you are better off trying
> to make the 'visibility' property work as another user suggested.
>
>
> "Wesley Long" <wesl@burstvideo.com> wrote:
> >I have been able to do some very nice effects in IE using the
> >span.style.display="none" and span.style.display="" javascript steps to
> show
> >and hide blocks of text with mouseclicks.
> >
> >However, when I view them in Netscape, I notice that the scripts seem to
> >abort when they reach this step.
> >
> >Does any one know what the equivalent method in Netscape might be?
Better
> >yet, is there a cross-browser method that would work better?
> >
> >I apologize if this has been discussed before, but I can't find anything
> in
> >this newsgroups current collection that applies to Netscape (other than
> a
> >reference to it being difficult to do).
> >
> >I appreciate any insight you might have to share.
> >
> >
>

[Neko Tel'ra]

"Wesley Long" <wesl@burstvideo.com> wrote:
>I have been able to do some very nice effects in IE using the
>span.style.display="none" and span.style.display="" javascript steps to
show
>and hide blocks of text with mouseclicks.
>
>However, when I view them in Netscape, I notice that the scripts seem to
>abort when they reach this step.
>
>Does any one know what the equivalent method in Netscape might be? Better
>yet, is there a cross-browser method that would work better?
>
>I apologize if this has been discussed before, but I can't find anything
in
>this newsgroups current collection that applies to Netscape (other than
a
>reference to it being difficult to do).
>
>I appreciate any insight you might have to share.
>
>

span.style.display is an IE specific feature, span.style.visiblity however
is cross-browser.. and instead of using none and "" use visible and hidden
both of which work cross-browser and produce the correct effects. Hope this
helps.

Neko Tel'ra