[Sigia-l] iframes and contextual help

[John O'Donovan]

Hi Peter,

I think I have got the right idea of what you are after - something I have
used before is showing and hiding a <DIV> section. The nice thing about this
is it could allow you to be very contextual because you can make complex
choices about what layer to show, if that's what you want to do.

As the user places the mouse over a link (or other screen element) an
invisible layer is revealed for a period of time by setting the visibility
of the layer. Something like:

  if (document.all) {
    document.all["burnish"].style.visibility = "visible";
  }
  else if(document.layers) {
    document.layers["burnish"].visibility = "show";
  }

Just a starting point - this is a very simple example...and you may need to
do some browser testing to make sure it works properly everywhere.

Otherwise, it's a bit like homemade tooltips...:)

Cheers,

jod