Dynamic HTML Cross Browser Techniques

DHTML and the Document Object Model

• DHTML Defined
• Document Object Model Beginnings
• The Level 0+ DOMs
• DOM Standards

The W3C HTML DOM

• Page Hierarchy
• Standard Methods and Properties

Changing Styles

• Exploring the Style Object
• Changing Styles
• The DOCTYPE Switch

Animating Page Elements

• Positioning Elements on the Page
• Moving Elements

Modifying the Document Structure

• Reading From and Writing to Existing Elements
• Reading, Writing, and Adding Attributes andValues
• Creating Nodes
• Removing and Replacing Nodes

Creating the Core DHTML Library

• Coding for Backward Compatibility
• The Custom Object Technique

Adding Methods to the Custom Object

• Adding Methods
• Adding Secondary Methods to the ActiveElementObject

Moving Elements on the Page

• Moving in Geometric Shapes

Clipping

• Clipping
• Clipping With Code

Getting User Input With Events

• Events
• Event Information
• Events and the ActiveElement Object

Applying Mouse Events

• Dragging and Dropping Drop-down Menus