Copy found at Wayback Machine Archive. Event handling is pretty straight forward for all three impacted browsers (or browser object models). Events can be handled using two different techniques: through event handlers attached to HTML elements, or through event capturing. Navigator 4.x, IE, and Mozilla/Navigator 6.x all support both types of event handling, though the […]
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X-Objects: HTML Replacement
Copy found at Wayback Machine Archive. HTML Replacement is functionality to replace the contents of an HTML tag. The contents could be the element’s data or could consist of one or more embedded HTML elements. Internet Explorer has four proprietary methods to replace the contents of an HTML tag: innerHTML to replace the contents with new HTML […]
X-Objects: Layering and Z-Order
Copy found at Wayback Machine archive. Internet Explorer 6.x differs from IE 5.x in one very important area: In IE 6.0 and up, units must be specified with all CSS styles that take units, if you use some combination of CSS positional attributes — what combination, exactly, I haven’t been able to figure out yet. […]
X-Objects: Element Width and Height
Copy found at Wayback Machine archive. In addition to being able to change an HTML element’s position within a page, or hide or show the element, you can also use the X-Objects to change the HTML element’s width and height. The X-Objects interface methods to control width and height are: objSetWidth: set an element’s width […]
X-Objects: Movement and Visibility
Copy found at Wayback Machine. All of the X-Objects have several methods for handling visibility and movement: objSetLeft: set the left position of the element objSetTop: set the top position of the element objGetLeft: get the current left position of the element, if set objGetTop: get the top position of the element, if set objMoveRelative: […]
