Stylesheets - Re: Hiding a Javascript menu from printing with CSS

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Re: Hiding a Javascript menu from printing with CSS

Barbara de Zoete

2004-02-24, 4:29 am

Rob McLennan - ZETLAND wrote:
> Barbara de Zoete <b_de_zoete@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<c13f2k$1ei0af$1@ID-52872.news.uni-berlin.de>...
>
>
> Sorry about the delay! Here it is (finally):
>
> http://www.objective.com/
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> I like the idea, that Peter Foti mentions, of using SSI,

If you can use it and know how to, it is a good thing.

> However, I'd also like to preserve the main nav bar being visible at
> all times, as it is now.

In Dutch, but if you look at the markup and styles you'll find out how
it's done, see
<http://home.wanadoo.nl/b.de.zoete/v...ixeren-kop.html>
for how to simulate frames. Works fine in IE.

> I like the idea of using clean html, but how do I preserve the complex
> rollovers that are currently there, if not with javascript?

Dutch also, see
<http://home.wanadoo.nl/b.de.zoete/v...overeffect.html>
for various menu's with some effects when hovered. All no JavaScript.The
pop-out menu doesn't work in IE. Have not yet solved that.

> Wouldn't
> this mean dynamic html, using divs/layers? If so, I have a bit of an
> issue with browser interpretation of divs.

My guess is the current site has much bigger issues than rendering divs
correctly, like the heavy scripting used for a simple nav-menu in the
top frame and the lack of appropriate alt-texts with the images,
especially those used for navigation. This is no good.
Besides that, the site seems to work in IE6, but it definately does not
work in Netscape7 (nav-menu, the one you think is valuable enough to
keep on screen always, doesn't show).

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Barbara

http://home.wanadoo.nl/b.de.zoete/html/weblog.html
http://home.wanadoo.nl/b.de.zoete/html/webontwerp.html

Stephen Poley

2004-02-24, 7:28 am

On 23 Feb 2004 18:03:59 -0800, robskoo@hotmail.com (Rob McLennan -
ZETLAND) wrote:

>I like the idea, that Peter Foti mentions, of using SSI, which is
>something I've started doing already for other parts of the site.
>However, I'd also like to preserve the main nav bar being visible at
>all times, as it is now.

Unless you have a very specific reason for using SSI, I'd be inclined to
recommend PHP. Includes in PHP are as simple as:

<?php
include ('pageheader.txt');
include ('menu.txt');
?>

but you can do very much more than SSI if you later find you need to.

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Stephen Poley

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/