DHTML ScrollText Script

[ImAgeekNEway]

Hi Everyone,

I downloaded and installed a script into a blank html page to see how it works, etc. Once I got a feel for it I put it into a page I designed and tested it through there. In my DW editor I see it just as I see it on the test page. However, when I preview the saved page, I see the SLOW MEDIUM FAST links but nothing else and nothing works. I've tried a few things like placing the script in different tables, cells, etc. but to no avail.

I am pretty fluent in HTML and can understand most things but this, for some reason, is beyond me. Would someone take a moment to look at the page I am attempting to apply the script to and see what it is I may be doing incorrectly?

This is the URL for the test page: http://209.250.8.143/ahfab/test.htm

This is the page for the active page that I am applying it to:
http://209.250.8.143/ahfab/bagged.htm

Props will be received on the site!

Thank you in advance,

Mike

[DayAfter]

It scrolled for me!

I did notice that MM_swapImgRestore() wasn't defined anywhere. I kept getting scripting errors for this object when my debugger was on.

I think the first instance of that call was on line 161... Anyhow other than that the scroll function for the pictures works just fine on this end...

Good luck

[ArcticFox]

That's cool, it works for me in FireFox.

[ImAgeekNEway]

Are you sure you're seeing it work in the completed page? The TEST page is nothing but the scrolling list on a white background. That one works, the one on the BAGGED page does not.

This is where it doesn't work: http://209.250.8.143/ahfab/bagged.htm

[James T]

Hmm the test works for me bagged doesn't. Looking at the source with SciTE you haven't properly bracketed the page. I'd clean that up first then start hunting the scroll. It could even be causing the failure to scroll.

[James T]

This might help: -
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...b%2Fbagged.htm

[Tekk]

Well besides the fact that the links are all smashed together in the scroll area, I noticed something weird:

The actual scrolling of the pictures works fine for me in Opera 7.54. The links are all misplaced though so you might need to fix up the DIV placements if thats what you are using. When I tested the same page in IE6 the scroll did not work at all.

[ImAgeekNEway]

Thakns Tekk for the insights. It's just a beta deal so I'm not ready with it other than just getting it to work. Once that happens than I'll go in and make it all pretty.

[ImAgeekNEway]

James,

I went through the lines the Validator says there were mistakes with but I don't know where the "Validator" is getting them from. I've carefully searched the lines and those errors do not exist. I myself question the validity of the "Validator". Sounds like it could use some work itself.

Error: ..."images/1px.gif" width="1" height="1"></td>

Validator states there is a problem with the closetout after the height size = 1. It's closing a tag line that explains the hieght and width of the image within the table.

Here's what the code looks like in full detail:
<td width="1" rowspan="7" bgcolor="#663300"><img src="images/1px.gif" width="1" height="1"></td>

That is just an example. I went through all the code that it says has problems, but there is nothing wrong with any of them.

Mike

[James T]

It's strict validation is ... strict. A close on an image ends with />. The following complies.

<img src="pic.png" width="249" height="130" alt="text"/>

No question in my mind that the validator is correct. I have run my homepage through it perfectly. It's just fussy. You do certainly have some closing tag problems in the page. My context viewing with SciTE allows you to collapse wrapped groups (you have to try this to see how good it is) and your page collapses incorrectly. Essentially you have a couple of elements that include problems like those in the following "<){>}".

Put alt=""/> in your image tags and do another validation. Some of the others errors should then start to pop out at you.