HTML - How To Really Preload An Image Before Content?

Hi,

Im trying to make my footer content align correctly to the main content when a window resizes. The apdivs don't seem to want to move at all even with a relative position etc. I have tried everything but just cant get it to work can someone help please?

http://pjm.co.uk.uksite4.yourwebserv...splay&PageID=5

Also some one commented before on the amount of css and JS pages. These will al be stripped out as its an Open sources system im using!

Thansk alot
Joe

All:

Working to update a previously designed website.

Original design uses an <img> tag to create a top banner and another <img> tag
to create a side banner.

In each case there are mapped coordinates on each banner as links for the subsequent pages.

Basic page design is as follows:

Code:

<table>
   <tr>
      <td>
         <img usemap="Map1">
         <map name="Map1">
            <area>
            <area>
            <area>
         </map>
      </td>
   </tr>
</table>
<table>
   <tr>
      <td>
         <img name="Map2">
         <map>
            <area>
            <area>
            <area>
         </map>
      </td>
      <div>
         ***PAGE CONTENT***
      </div>
   <tr>
<table>

The challenge is that the [PAGE CONTENT] varries in length througout the site causing some pages
to be much longer or shorter than others.

This causes some inconsistencey in the relationship between the side banners height and the
page content.

In other words in some cases the banner is exceptionally longer than the page content and the
reader must scroll past significant "dead-space" before being brought to the lowest
mapped links in the side banner; or...

...in some cases the side banner is significantly shorter than the page content causing the
banner image to appear "poorly-fit" to the page design.

I considered altering the 2nd table instance in the above design so that the banner is carried
in a <td> tag that is adjacent to the page content and hopefully to allow the tag carrying the
image to size relative to the <td> tag carring the content....

Code:

<table>
   <tr>
      <td>
         <img usemap="Map1">
         <map name="Map1">
            <area>
            <area>
            <area>
         </map>
      </td>
   </tr>
</table>
<table>
   <tr>
      <td size="100%">
         <img name="Map2">
         <map>
            <area>
            <area>
            <area>
         </map>
      </td>
      <td size="100%" >
         <table>
            ***PAGE CONTENT***
         </table>
      </td>
   <tr>
<table>

The problem I've found with this is that as the content size causes the image to "flex", either
readablilty or image quality or both are effected, AND the mappings become inconsistent as the
image coordinates constantly change.

I've considered 2 solutions and am leaning toward one, but thought I'd post this and see if there
are better ideas I'm overlooking.

One idea was to add additional table rows inside the [PAGE CONTENT] table presumably creating a
"defalut" page size that would never be smaller than a standard for the side banner.
Problem: larger page sizes are still a problem as are the changing map coordinates

My other idea was to return to the original page design listed first above and again settle on
a standard side banner "height"... ...any page that was significantly longer than that height
would be split to 2 or more pages with a [NEXT>>] button at the bottom of the page navigating to
the additional content.
Problem: ...possible complications splitting content...
Benefit: ...consistent page design that allows a consistent side banner with navigable links...


Question for the group:
Does this sound reasonable?
Are there better alternatives I am overlooking?

THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR ALL INPUT!!

Hey guys, I used to know a lot about html, but then just completely stopped doing anything with websites for too long.

I was just wondering how I can replace a word or number with a specified word or number.

What I want to achieve:
I've got a forum with a couple thousand members and it's picking up in activity and I want to make some names stand out for being helpful. I want to replace their names with an image.

But to do so, it'd have to be a code made and added into the footer template. Because obviously I can't edit a username for html image code. So I just need the code to find all instances of a certain username and replace it with what I specified.

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Man I really wish I remembered how to do this haha.

Thanks guys.

Hi all --

I'm having an interesting problem. I'm designing a web page that has a navigation banner (home - programs - schedule of events - contact us - downloads) that is made up of a .png for each page (i.e. home.png, programs.png, etc). My page is 1000px wide and all of the navigation banner's images add up to 1000px wide.

I'm using JavaScript to create an onMouseOver and onMouseOut effect on each of the images. The problem that I'm having occurs when I tried to add a link (either by <A HREF= or using an image map). Whenever I add a link to the image, a small (3px) area of white space shows up to the right of the image. This shifts all of my other images 3px to the right (and 3 more for each link I add to subsequent images) thus making the total width of the navigation banner over 1000px and the last image gets shoved to a new line.

I can find no way to get rid of this white space other than to remove the link from the image. There is no property on the page that adds any sort of padding, margins, or borders to images or links, so I can see no property that has to be changed.

Help! How do I get rid of this white space but still keep the link on the image??

[I posted this question on the Adobe forum to no avail, below is a screencap I took of the issue I'm having]

Thanks in advance!
//kl

PS - I am using both IE8 and Chrome to view this webpage. I've set all the margins/padding/borders to 0px. Here is my CSS and the part of the code that pertains to the navigation banner.

CSS:
Code:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background: #666666;
margin: 0; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */
padding: 0;
text-align: center; /* this centers the container in IE 5* browsers. The text is then set to the left aligned default in the #container selector */
color: #000000;
background-image: url(images/blue.bg.png);
background-repeat: repeat;
background-color: #009;
}
.oneColFixCtr #container {
width: 1000px;  /* using 20px less than a full 800px width allows for browser chrome and avoids a horizontal scroll bar */
background: #FFFFFF;
margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
border: 0px solid #000000;
text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
}
.oneColFixCtr #mainContent {
padding: 0 20px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
}
body, td, th {
color: #333;
}
#main_banner2 {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
height: auto;
width: 1000px;
}
-->
</style>
 
</head>

Nav Banner:
NOTE:: below HAS to be all one paragraph because if i insert a carriage return in between images, it also adds the white space...
Code:

<body class="oneColFixCtr">
 
<!-- MAIN NAVIGATION BANNER -->  
<!--HOME--><img src="images/nav/home.png" alt="home" name="home" width="82" height="30" border="0" onMouseOver="document.images.home.src='images/nav/home_over.png'" onMouseOut ="document.images.home.src='images/nav/home.png'"/><!--PROGRAMS--><img src="images/nav/programs.png" width="111" height="30" border="0" name="programs" onMouseOver="document.images.programs.src='images/nav/programs_over.png'" onMouseOut ="document.images.programs.src='images/nav/programs.png'"/><!--SCHEDULE OF EVENTS--><img src="images/nav/scheduleofevents.png" width="189" height="30" border="0" name="scheduleofevents" onMouseOver="document.images.scheduleofevents.src='images/nav/scheduleofevents_ over.png'" onMouseOut ="document.images.scheduleofevents.src='images/nav/scheduleofevents.png'"/><!-- CONTACT US--><img src="images/nav/contactus.png" width="119" height="30" border="0" name="contactus" onMouseOver="document.images.contactus.src='images/nav/contactus_over.png'" onMouseOut ="document.images.contactus.src='images/nav/contactus.png'"/><!--DOWNLOADS--><i mg src="images/nav/downloads.png" width="267" height="30" border="0" name="downloads" onMouseOver="document.images.downloads.src='images/nav/downloads_over.png'" onMouseOut ="document.images.downloads.src='images/nav/downloads.png'"/><!--FACEBOOK--><im g src="images/nav/facebook.png" width="90" height="30" border="0" name="facebook" onMouseOver="document.images.facebook.src='images/nav/facebook_over.png'" onMouseOut ="document.images.facebook.src='images/nav/facebook.png'"/><!--TWITTER--><img src="images/nav/twitter.png" width="67" height="30" border="0" name="twitter" onMouseOver="document.images.twitter.src='images/nav/twitter_over.png'" onMouseOut ="document.images.twitter.src='images/nav/twitter.png'"/><!--BLOGGER--><img src="images/nav/blogger.png" width="75" height="30" border="0" name="blogger" onMouseOver="document.images.blogger.src='images/nav/blogger_over.png'" onMouseOut ="document.images.blogger.src='images/nav/blogger.png'"/><img src="images/home_banner.png" alt="home_border" width="1000" height="7" /><br />

So in January 2006 I posted a question about "making two buttons in one"



3 years and 5 months later i am happy to announce that I have found a solution.

Ok, so no I have not spent the last three years looking, but the need for one came around again yesterday so I revisited the project. All I needed was "simple" image toggle. Image 'A' click it once it changes to image 'B' click it again it changes back to image 'A'

All the "image toggle" codes I could find were extremely complex. I thought I had finally found one, it wasn't perfect, but it was the smallest and most basic thing I could find.

HTML Code:

<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
.on {background-image:url(playlist_btn.png); background-repeat:no-repeat;}
.off {background-image:url(playlist_btn_x.png); background-repeat:no-repeat;}
</style>

<script language="javascript">
function togglestyle(el){if(el.className == "on") {el.className="off";} else {el.className="on";}}
</script>

</head>

<body>
<div id="onoff" class="playlist_btn"><img src="blank.gif" width="50 height="50" onclick="togglestyle(onoff)"></div>
</body>
</html>

I tested it, it worked, so I considered problem solved. I placed it in my page and nothing. Turns out it wont work with a doc type - so it's useless.

Other problems, I'm not big on using "blank gif's" unless I have to, if you want multiple image toggles you need a new JS function for each one, and two lines of css as well. And, though I rarely use image rollovers anymore, it would certainly not be possible in this method.

So it was back to the drawing board. Well, I had actually already found the solution a few minuets prior to finding out that the above code is so good. I had coded a button that on rollover shows a tooltip, when you click the button, the text in the tool tip, changes, chick again and it reverts. All done with a simple showHide javascript function, that i am finfing out has many uses.

here is the awesome code:
Code:

function showHide(elementid){
if (document.getElementById(elementid).style.display == 'none'){
document.getElementById(elementid).style.display = '';
} else {
document.getElementById(elementid).style.display = 'none';
}
}

function hideShow(elementid){
if (document.getElementById(elementid).style.display == ''){
document.getElementById(elementid).style.display = 'none';
} else {
document.getElementById(elementid).style.display = '';
}
}

I wont take credit for the showHide code, but I will take credit for the hideShow portion, obviously a monkey could have coded the revers, but iot does make it that much more universal. As the original code was designed to show something that was hidden, add the revers to hide something that is showing and it's perfect.

Now I will take a moment to say, though I have yet to find a problem with the code, it seems to work in most browsers, firefox, ie, safari, and validates for WC3 - In sure it has it's flaws. Until now, to show and hide divs I had used the MM_showHideLayers JavaScript function, which by default used the visibility style. It is of course a good script, and has many uses, it's not very big, but it is somewhat complex. The other thing to think about is that invisible objects still take up space. That's what is cool about the display:none: style, is that is not only invisible but it doesn't take up space.

So here is how I used the above to JavaScript to make a simple onclick image toggle:

HTML Code:

<img id="on" src="on.png" width="50" height="50" onClick="javascript:hideShow('on'); javascript:showHide('off')" alt="on">
<img id="off" src="off.png" width="50" height="50" onClick="javascript:hideShow('off'); javascript:showHide('plus')" style="display:none;" alt="off">

Cool huh? Now this example does not have a rollover either, but since it uses to individual images and is not replacing one image wioth another you could easily apply a rollover to both images. But, hold on, look at the above code, isn't that essentially a rollover? Change the first onClick to onMouseOver and the second to onMouseOut and look at that a 'brand new' method for mouseovers.

So lets take a look at this for a second, and compare MM_swapImage to this new hideShow method. As far as CSS rollovers I definitely prefer them to the MM_swapImage method, as they use a minimal amount of code. However they actually take a lot of math, construction the buttons is somewhat tedious, because css buttons use 1 image and change it's position, to work well you have to use a "blank.gif" and the the css can really add up if you have a lot of buttons:

Also, you can't go directly to a button in the document, you have to fish through the css to make any adjustments. But they are fast, they don't need to be preloaded and... they are pretty cool. But anyway, swapImage and hideShow...



The left is the MM_swapImage method. Now when you use the swapImage js you also have to use MM_swapImgRestore, MM_findObj, MM_preloadImages. You don't have to use the preload script but it does make thing work faster... supposedly, but that requires a onload script in the body tag, and if you have a lot of rollovers your body tag can get really long really quick. So what are the advantages, well we know for sure it works, and you only need on image in the document, however actualy having the image you are "swapping" too actually in the document can add functionality.

So as you can see, on the right, the showHide method is, in total code, much smaller. True you do need to use two images, so the total code in the body is longer but, it's more than evened out bu the minimal JavaScript, and I think it's worth it. You don't need to use a preloader, you have full control over both images, the up and over state, and unlike the swapImage method, though it's rare you would need to, your up and over images can actually be different sizes, which is kind of cool.

So here's the basic code for a rollover:
HTML Code:

<img id="up" src="up.png" width="50" height="50" onMouseOver="javascript:hideShow('up'); javascript:showHide('over')" alt="up">
<a href="http://google.com"><img id="over" src="over.png" width="50" height="50" onMouseOut="javascript:hideShow('over'); javascript:showHide('up')" style="display:none;" alt="over" border="0"></a>

To add a link the button you just apply it to the "over state" image. And unlike swapImage, though it is overkill, you can also add a "downstate" image quite easily.

So, back to the on/off button here is how you would code it using showHide with rollovers.
HTML Code:

<img id="on" src="on.png" width="50" height="50" onMouseOver="javascript:hideShow('on'); javascript:showHide('onover')" alt="on">
<img id="onover" src="on_over.png" width="50" height="50" onMouseOut="javascript:hideShow('onover'); javascript:showHide('on')" onClick="javascript:hideShow('onover'); javascript:showHide('offover')"  style="display:none;" alt="onover">
<img id="off" src="off.png" width="50" height="50" onMouseOver="javascript:hideShow('off'); javascript:showHide('offover')" style="display:none;" alt="off">
<img id="offover" src="off_over.png" width="50" height="50" style="display:none;" onMouseout="javascript:hideShow('offover'); javascript:showHide('off')" onClick="javascript:hideShow('onover'); javascript:showHide('off')"alt="offover">

So here is what is going on:
you have the upstate on.png image, when you mouse over it on.png is hidden and on_over.png is displayed. When you click on_over.png it is hidden and off_over.png is display, mouse off it and off.png is displayed. Make scene?

Now be aware, when you click, you are also in a scene "mousing off" so some flickering can occur. Firefox handles everything pretty well, IE and Safari not so much. When you click the on_over.png the click tells it to hide on_over.png and show the off_over.png, at the same time the mouseoff tells it to hide on_over.png and show the on.png. So fortunately the toggle with rollovers isn't perfect, but perhaps some more tweaking of the code or maybe, in this case swapImage would work better to do the rollovers...

But all in all I'd say its a solid concept. If you feel compiled to do so, reply with any comments, concerns or flaws you see.

First I would like to know if there is a better way of doing this. <div></div> is the only way I know of doing it although others have told me they didn't even know it could be done with <div></div>.

Second I would like to know if there's some way to control the speed at which the box scrolls.

Third If the content is text then I want the scroll function to be vertical. There's other times I need the scroll to be horizontal.

Here is the code:
HTML Code:

 <div style="background-color: black; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 47, 212); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-color: rgb(212, 47, 212); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; border-right-color: rgb(212, 47, 212); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 2px; border-top-color: rgb(212, 47, 212); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; font-size: 11px; height: 200px; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: auto; width: 200px;">
			<span style="color:#ffffff;">CONTENT HERE</span></div>

This is what the code looks like when viewed in Chrome and Firefox. However when used in IE the content can often move through the boarders.

Hey guys. I need a little help with my HTML image rotator.

Everything works fine, except the images don't show up on the right slide. All 4 images show up on the first slide. I can't figure out what's wrong. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
	<title>...</title>
	<style>
		#sliderwrap {
			height: 403px;
		}
		#sliderleft {
			width: 10px;
			height: 100%;
			float: left;
			background: #efefef;
			border: 1px solid #ccc;
		}
		#sliderleft div {
			height: 100px;
			border-bottom: 1px solid black;
		}
		#slidercontent {
			position: relative;
			width: 650px;
			height: 100%;
			float: left;
			border: 1px solid black;
			overflow: hidden;
		}
		#sliderimages {
			position: absolute;
			-webkit-transition: all .5s ease-in-out;
			-moz-transition:    all .5s ease-in-out;
			-ms-transition:     all .5s ease-in-out;
			-o-transition:      all .5s ease-in-out;
			transition:         all .5s ease-in-out;
		}
		#sliderimages img {
			display: block;
		}
		.s0 #slide0,
		.s1 #slide1,
		.s2 #slide2,
		.s3 #slide3 {
			background: #ccc;
		}
		.s0 #sliderimages {top:     0  }
		.s1 #sliderimages {top:  -500px}
		.s2 #sliderimages {top: -1000px}
		.s3 #sliderimages {top: -1500px}
	</style>
	<script>
		var slide = 0;
		var interval_id = 0;

		function stop_timer() {
			clearInterval(interval_id);
			if (this.getAttribute("data-slide")) {
				slide = parseInt(this.getAttribute("data-slide"));
				document.getElementById("sliderwrap").className = "s" + slide;
			}
		}

		function start_timer() {
                        clearInterval(interval_id);
			interval_id = setInterval(
				function() {
					slide = (slide + 1) % 4;
					document.getElementById("sliderwrap").className = "s" + slide;
				},
				3000
			);
		}

		window.onload = function() {
			start_timer();
			var el = document.getElementById("slidercontent");
			var divs = document.getElementById("sliderleft").getElementsByTagName("div");
			for (var i = 0; i < divs.length; i++) {
				divs[i].onmouseover = stop_timer;
				divs[i].onmouseout = start_timer;
			}
			el.onmouseover = stop_timer;
			el.onmouseout = start_timer;
		}
	</script>
</head>

<body>
	<div id="sliderwrap" class="s0">
		<div id="sliderleft">
			<div id="slide0" data-slide="0"></div>
			<div id="slide1" data-slide="1"></div>
			<div id="slide2" data-slide="2"></div>
			<div id="slide3" data-slide="3"></div>
		</div>
		<div id="slidercontent">
			<div id="sliderimages">
				<img src="http://i.imgur.com/8iWz6.jpg">
				<img src="http://i.imgur.com/1d2U6.jpg">
				<img src="http://i.imgur.com/8iWz6.jpg">
				<img src="http://i.imgur.com/1d2U6.jpg">
			</div>
		</div>
		<div style="clear: both;"></div>
	</div>
</body>
</html>

Hey guys, need a little help with a site im playing with right now.

I have a basic site (header, footer, nav, content, and promo area) i use ul, li, a for the nav.

When i hover my navigation links it supposed to display black for 1st and second level, and i use the visibility element for anything higher than than. However when i hover i can see my navigation but alot of it is hidden behind my content. Any Ideas.

Thanks In Advance for any help.

P.S. Just another quick question i created my own java carousel and it works great but i want to add links in my nav to a specific "slide" in my carousel which i think woulod require a link to the page and to call a javascript function at the same time is this possible or is there another way to do it.

I have a page that is not being centered on the background in both IE 6&7 but looks perfect in FF. I am not sure what is wrong because the template I used is vaild

Here is the page

http://www.mesquitechristmas.com/wea...Z119&icao=KHQZ

I have been banging my head all day an maybe just need another pair of eyes.

-Thanks

Here is my website for starters:

http://divinedragons.tk

If you navigate to my Schedules page, you can see there is an embedded calendar. At the bottom of this calendar, there is a line of text saying:

"Want to add an event to this schedule? Contact us by clicking on the link above, and we will post it as soon as possible."

I view this website on the current computer I'm using on Firefox, and the line of text can be viewed just perfectly. On my other networked computer, however, in MSN Explorer, i view the same page, but the same line of text seems to be too large, and it cuts off half the phrase. I was thinking the screen resolution was different, and that caused the text to be cut off in the browser. Yet i think there is a way for this line of text to be viewable on any computer, regardless of any screen resolution.

I put the embedded code in a table format, as it is currently. The embedded code is with between the tags <TABLE><TD> and </TD></TABLE>. I remember looking somewhere that putting code in a table would cause it to appropriately "resize" itself in any monitor/screen resolution/browser size. Apparently it does not.

So, I came here to ask an HTML expert if there is any way for my embedded calendar's footer text to be fully viewed, in any screen resolution or browser. Thanks for your time, and thanks so much in advance.

Hi,

I have a question to all.

How can I made 100% header (bg only), normal content area (fixed width) then 100% box and below normal content area (fixed wifth and at last 100% footer.

Please help me with the following. This is not a problem in Firefox; only in IE. I am having trouble centering one DIV with a DIV to the left of the centered DIV. The DIV that is blue I would like centered according to the browser width and the red DIV I would like the same vertically as the blue DIV only left justified. In Firefox this works correctly the way I would expect. In IE the left justified div appears "pushes" the DIV ( in blue ) that I want centered further to the right; making it un-centered. thanks for any assistance.

Code:

<div width="100%">
			<div align = "left" style="width:200px;float:left;background-color:#ff0000;">
						<p style="font-size: 8pt;">This needs to be left justified........</p>
						<p style="font-size: 8pt;">This needs to be left justified........</p>
						<p style="font-size: 8pt;">This needs to be left justified........</p>
			</div>
		 <div align="center" style="background-color:#00ff00;">
				<div style="width: 500px;background-color:#0000ff;">
					<p style="font-size: 8pt;">this needs to be centered.................................................................................. </p>
					<p style="font-size: 8pt;">this needs to be centered.................................................................................. </p>
					<p style="font-size: 8pt;">this needs to be centered.................................................................................. </p>
					<p style="font-size: 8pt;">this needs to be centered </p>
				</div>
		</div>

Hello to all experts in HTML,
I want to know, because when I try to print the contents of a DIV I print all text except the images.
I created a DIV centered on my page, and inside there is some text and a background image.
I haven't used the <IMG> tag for the background image but the style: background-image:#;
<div> <a class="print" href="#" onclick="window.print()"><img src="icon.png" /><br />Print</a>
<div id="content"> <p> eccc...... </div> </div>

Can you please explain me, why I did not print from what I see from my browser?
Thank you!

ps. Sorry for my bad English.

Hey guys i used to mess around doing simple sites but haven't messed with it for a few years and I about forgot everything.. Now what I'm trying to do here is make my content box stretch as more content is added but when I do it now it breaks my page.. Can anyone direct me to how to fix this problem.. here is what I mean.
http://img687.imageshack.us/i/fixprob.jpg/

I need to do this without making my box a scroll bar box as I want it to just stretch down my page. My background where content should stretch is a solid color and my sides are all even as well so it should flow fine I just don't remember how to do this. Thanks in advance.

Hi!!!

It's my fist post here, so i'll try to make it good

My problem is:
I want to show an embed video to only users, who press my link. e.g, Someones press my link, and it unlocks the frame, where the video is. Even better would be if it could know, that the person pressed like 5 times this week, and so after 5 times (at different days), it would unlock content. But I could get myself with the first too...

So could anybody show me, how to do that

P.S. I'm Lithuanian, so I'm sorry for my poor English skills.


MUCH THANKS!!!