document layers question

[Chris Leonard]

Hi.

Can anyone help me please. If the syntax for IE is:

document.getEle mentById(layerI D)

What if I want to use layers ?

document.layers ?????????

Can someone help me out please.

Thanks

Chris

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Re: document layers question

"Chris Leonard" <c.leonardNOSPA M@btinternet.co m> writes:
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> Can anyone help me please. If the syntax for IE is:
>
> document.getEle mentById(layerI D)[/color]

That is not just IE, it is in the W3C DOM Core specification.

It is the way to go, unless you need to support ancient browsers.
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> What if I want to use layers ?[/color]
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> document.layers ?????????[/color]

Then you need to use Netscape 4 or earlier.

These are the only browsers to support the proprietary Netscape tag
<layer>, and the collection "document.layer s" [1].

Some people still use the word "layer" about absolutely positioned
div elements. I don't recommend that, since it can be confuzed with
real <layer>-tag layers.


/L
[1] OmniWeb is reported to have a property called document.layers , but
it doesn't work.
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