Onclick In Layers

kvarnerexpress

Dec 3 2005, 12:24 AM

I'm trying to get a layer (in Netscape...) to respond to mouse clicks. Currently the text in the layer is a link and what I would like is for another layer to pop up when the link is clicked on (defining the word in the link) The problem is that I can't name each individual layer and use absolute references (there are a too many definitions) so I need to backtrace from the link to the layer it's in. I have no clue how to do this--I can acess the document of the bottom layer but I don't know how to get to the layer above (document.layers.parentLayer does not work)
Any ideas?

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chriswsk

Dec 19 2005, 10:50 AM

Are you using javascript in href to call a function or javascript to show a layer? If yes, when calling the javascript code or javascript function, you can pass the current object (the layer that contains the link) to the function.

For example,
<script type="text/javascript">
function abc(currentObject){
// now you can get the layer without using id
}
</script>

<a href="#" onclick="abc(this)">link</a>

Using this method, you can let the function access the current layer without asigning any id to it.

Hope that it is useful to you.

QUOTE(kvarnerexpress @ Dec 3 2005, 08:24 AM)

I'm trying to get a layer (in Netscape...) to respond to mouse clicks. Currently the text in the layer is a link and what I would like is for another layer to pop up when the link is clicked on (defining the word in the link) The problem is that I can't name each individual layer and use absolute references (there are a too many definitions) so I need to backtrace from the link to the layer it's in. I have no clue how to do this--I can acess the document of the bottom layer but I don't know how to get to the layer above (document.layers.parentLayer does not work)
Any ideas?

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