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HTML Pocket Reference
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HTML Pocket Reference

by Jennifer Niederst Robbins
December 1999
Intermediate to advanced
95 pages
2h 34m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

<layer> — NN: 2, 3, 4 &bull; MSIE: 2, 3, 4, 5 &bull; HTML 4 &bull; WebTV &bull; Opera3

Synopsis

<layer>...</layer>

Navigator only. Originally introduced by Netscape to identify distinct content objects as part of Netscape’s DHTML implementation. Use of the <layer> tage is discouraged, in favor of Cascading Style Sheets with Positioning; in reality, the <layer> tag is required for rendering DHTML pages for Navigator 4.0.

Attributes

above=layer name

Identifies the layer immediately above (in stacking order) the newly created layer. The named layer must already exist.

background=url(filename)

Specifies an image to be used as the background.

below=layer name

Identifies the layer immediately below the newly created layer. The named layer must already exist.

bgcolor=#rrggbb or color name

Specifies the background color of the layer.

clip=n,n,n,n

Defines the boundaries of the clipping rectangle (visible area) of the layer.

The value is a set of four numbers, indicating in order, the left value, the top value, the right value and the bottom value. The left and right values are specified as pixels in from the left, while the top and bottom values are specified as pixels down from the origin of the layer.

height=number, percentage

Specifies the height of the layer.

id=text

Specifies the layer’s ID, so it can be referenced by other layers and JavaScript.

left=number

Specifies the absolute horizontal position of the layer. The setting left=50 would position the layer 50 pixels from the left edge of the window. ...

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