Posted by Jon Slaughter on 03/24/07 02:52

"chrisv" <nickadeemus2002@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Mar 23, 5:08 pm, "Jon Slaughter" <Jon_Slaugh...@Hotmail.com> wrote:
>> "Ben C" <spams...@spam.eggs> wrote in message
>>
>> news:slrnf08h88.apu.spamspam@bowser.marioworld...
>>
>> > On 2007-03-23, Jon Slaughter <Jon_Slaugh...@Hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >> is it possible to trigger events with css or is it purely a static
>> >> scripting
>> >> language? I have a menu that contains sub menu's and when the user
>> >> clicks
>> >> on
>> >> the main link I want to set the visibility to show the sub menu(and
>> >> ofcourse
>> >> hide the visibility for all other sub menu's). Is the only way to
>> >> accomplish this with js or does css have some ability to handle things
>> >> like
>> >> this?
>>
>> > This kind of thing is possible to some degree with CSS. RTFM "pseudos",
>> > "pseudoselectors", :hover and the visibility property.
>>
>> But how can you modify a property of some other style? e.g., If I hover
>> over
>> a button I want to set the visibility property of a table.
>>
>> For example, suppose I have
>>
>> #SomeTable {
>> visibility:hidden;
>>
>> }
>>
>> a:hover
>> {
>> SomeTable.visibility:visible;
>>
>> }
>>
>> ...
>>
>> <table id="SomeTable">
>> </table>
>>
>> <a href=" ">Link</a>
>>
>> -----------
>>
>> Can I change the properties of other styles within a style? I'll read up
>> on
>> css and see if I can find the answer but I don't think of I have seen
>> anything like before.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jon
>
>
> assuming table and href are in the same div, you could probably use
> class inheritance and contextual definitions to get the desired
> effect.

A site I found uses display:block and display:unknown or all child lists
inside the link. It works in IE7 and FF 2.0 but not sure about IE6. They
mention something about having to use behaviors to get it to work there but
I'm probably just going to take the easy route and require a modern browser
to view my site.

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