DW: Show-Hide Layers

Hey, I’m having two issues with the Show-Hide Layers
behaviour in Dreamweaver and was wondering if someone else has had
the same problems and has a solution.
My test page is
http://www.petermcphee.com/dreamweaver/popup-layer.html
1) What I would like is to show the layer when the link is
hovered over, which works fine. However, I also want the layer to
remain visible while the mouse is over the layer and disappear when
the mouse leaves the layer.
I Googled for a while and found some tutorials that deal with
showing/hiding layers but they hide the layers once the mouse
leaves the original link, not the layer.
2) Also, the site that I want to apply this behaviour to has
an auto centering wrapper box, so I would like the layer to popup
right underneath the link every time without converting the entire
site to absolute positioning. As it is now, the popup appears at
different locations depending how wide my browser is.
Is this even possible with the current DW functionality?
Thanks a lot!
Peter.

> 1) What I would like is to show the layer when the link
is hovered over,
> which
> works fine. However, I also want the layer to remain
visible while the
> mouse is
> over the layer and disappear when the mouse leaves the
layer.
When you show the layer, also show an underlying layer that
contains a
transparent GIF image that is about 10px wider/taller than
the layer you
show. Apply a hide layer behavior to the GIF image that hides
both the
layer you just showed, and the underlying layer. Remove the
mouseout hide
event from the original trigger. Does that make sense?
> 2) Also, the site that I want to apply this behaviour to
has an auto
> centering
> wrapper box, so I would like the layer to popup right
underneath the link
> every
> time without converting the entire site to absolute
positioning. As it is
> now,
> the popup appears at different locations depending how
wide my browser is.
Change this -
</head>
to this -
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
change this -
<body ...>
to this -
<body ...>
<div id="wrapper">
and this -
</body>
to this -

</div>
</body>
and see if that helps.
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"petertyler" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hey, I?m having two issues with the Show-Hide Layers
behaviour in
> Dreamweaver
> and was wondering if someone else has had the same
problems and has a
> solution.
>
> My test page is
http://www.petermcphee.com/dreamweaver/popup-layer.html
>
> 1) What I would like is to show the layer when the link
is hovered over,
> which
> works fine. However, I also want the layer to remain
visible while the
> mouse is
> over the layer and disappear when the mouse leaves the
layer.
>
> I Googled for a while and found some tutorials that deal
with
> showing/hiding
> layers but they hide the layers once the mouse leaves
the original link,
> not
> the layer.
>
> 2) Also, the site that I want to apply this behaviour to
has an auto
> centering
> wrapper box, so I would like the layer to popup right
underneath the link
> every
> time without converting the entire site to absolute
positioning. As it is
> now,
> the popup appears at different locations depending how
wide my browser is.
>
> Is this even possible with the current DW functionality?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Peter.
>

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> Probably obvious.
>
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> clicked. What I get instead is the new layers appearing
on top of the old
> ones
> and making a mess.
>
> Probably an obvious solution, but my brain is not
getting it at the
> moment.
> Suggestions?
>
> Thanks...
>
> -Jesse
>
>
>

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Waller, thanks John, but what I mean is that I don't want to use
layers, this has to do with the positioning in a table. I want to
add images to a table which is in a layer so I can put margin-left
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Anybody knows if it would be possible in DW CS3 to do so, see
the original question underneath to get the picuture:
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Hi
In DW8 I often used the possibility to put several layers on
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layers so the images would be visible when having a mouse-over
action on a thumbnail for example.
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want.
Am I stuck on using DW8 and the show/hide layers option, or
is there a way to put multiple images (elements) on top of
eachother in DW-CS3?
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Ferrohead

> table which is in a layer so
> I can put margin-left and margin-right for the layer to
"auto" so the
> whole
> table (including images) will always be centered.
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> If I add layers to the table
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table cell.
> I hope you guys know what I mean.
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> I've just posted this question and got a reply from John
Waller, thanks
> John,
> but what I mean is that I don't want to use layers, this
has to do with
> the
> positioning in a table. I want to add images to a table
which is in a
> layer so
> I can put margin-left and margin-right for the layer to
"auto" so the
> whole
> table (including images) will always be centered. If I
add layers to the
> table
> and add images to the layers (to get the mouse-over
effect) the layers
> will not
> move with the table to the center of the page, I hope
you guys know what I
> mean.
>
> Anybody knows if it would be possible in DW CS3 to do
so, see the original
> question underneath to get the picuture:
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Hi
> In DW8 I often used the possibility to put several
layers on top of
> eachother
> with images in them, this way I could show/hide layers
so the images would
> be
> visible when having a mouse-over action on a thumbnail
for example.
> Now DW-CS3 gives the option show/hide elements, however,
I can not simply
> put
> elements on top of eachother, which is what I want.
> Am I stuck on using DW8 and the show/hide layers option,
or is there a way
> to
> put multiple images (elements) on top of eachother in
DW-CS3?
>
> Thanks, have a nice day
>
> Ferrohead
>
>

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