Posted by cwdjrxyz on 01/08/08 06:34

On Jan 8, 12:17 am, cwdjrxyz <spamtr...@cwdjr.info> wrote:
> On Jan 7, 6:36 pm, Aaron Saray <102degr...@102degrees.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Jan 6, 11:10 pm, Isaac Grover <isaac.gro...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Good evening from Wisconsin,
>
> > > One of our clients has requested a horizontal scrolling marquee for one
> > > line on one page of their site, and we're having a difficult time placing
> > > the marquee inside the box that it is supposed to be in.
>
> > > Here is the old look without the marquee:http://www.recoveryandhealth.org/prototype/index-previous.html
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> > > And here is the new look with the marquee:http://www.recoveryandhealth.org/prototype/index.html
>
> > > What is the javascript ticker doing such that it moves itself outside the
> > > box?
>
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > --
> > > Isaac Grover, Owner
> > > Quality Computer Services of River Falls, Wisconsin
> > > Web:http://www.qcs-rf.com
>
> > Could it be that the javascript ticker uses absolute positioning? If
> > this is the case, the box cannot determine the height of the ticker,
> > nor that it is indeed supposed to contain the ticker. You will have
> > to give the box a hardset height in order to 'contain' the scroller, I
> > think.
>
> The ticker js file is athttp://www.recoveryandhealth.org/prototype/js/ticker.js
> . If you look at the last line of the code, you will see that relative
> positioning is used. The problem indeed is likely with the ticker
> script. Since the ticker creates a division, I would at first assign a
> z-index of perhaps 2 or 3 to it to see if the left of the ticker box
> is just hidden under the right box of the main page or not. It might
> help to assign a lower z-index to the division of the right box on the
> main page.Of course one can position the ticker box anywhere on the
> page using absolute positioning and adjusting z-index values for
> various divisions to determine what is on top if the ticker box
> overlaps something. The disadvantage comes when one changes the screen
> dimensions. The main part of the page will adjust to the new screen
> width and height, but the absolute positioned ticker box will not. Of
> course one could use more elaborate script to detect page dimensions,
> calculate the new position required for the ticker box, and use
> document.write to determine the absolute coordinates for the ticker
> box for the new width/height setting. In short, the project could
> easily turn into a complete rewrite of the js.

Oops. I should have said left box rather than right box. That is , the
box that contains Home, About Us, etc. I also just viewed the page on
Opera. It works as it should on a normal PC screen width of 1000+ px.
However in the view tab, Opera allows you to select viewing as on a
small devices such as a mobile unit or cell phone. When you view on
this very small screen size, the contents of the left box are
completely displayed. Then, under that, the contents of the right
box(side) are displayed. However the marquee produced by the js is not
displayed at all.

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