Show/Hide only part of hidden layer DW3

[hitby]

Hi,
I've read somewhere that its possibly to show or hide a small section of a hidden layer on mouse over but I can't figure out how to do it.

I've got one graphic with text on it which I have turned into several hot spots. I have the same image on the next layer but the text is a different colour. I want to be able to roll over a hotspot and only reveal the corresponding section of the image on layer to create a rollover. The reason I have to do this is because the buttons on my page are all jumbled up. The page is up at

http://www.dt-creations.co.uk/wine/mainframe.htm

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Cheers

hitby

 

[hitby]

sorry for replying to my own post but noticed another problem, having made the hotspots in dreamweaver when you mouseover they flicker as if you are passing in and out. Is there a way to correct this problem?

TIA for any help

cheers

Danny

 

[CTekMedia]

You might want to break the image into sections and use the swap image behavior (rather than show/hide layers) to get the effect you want. Also, you are getting the flicker because your "hotspots" are active on the text only, i.e., only the letters are active. Such small active areas are rapidly activated and de-activiated as the cursor passes over them which creates the flicker effect.

Cheers! Peace

http://www.bluetone.biz

BT

 

[hitby]

Hi, When I created my hotspots I drew an irregular shaped box around the ares that I wanted, I assumed all inside that box would be the hotspot, if it isn't how can I create it so that it is? Also because of the shape and size of my hotspots in the image I didn't think i could cut the image to the same size ( I thought(think) that you could only cut the image into straight shapes, if this isn't the case could someone please explain how to do this and then to pay the parts out so they align with the top image.

Sorry if this is an easy query,

cheers

Danny

 

[CTekMedia]

I am too slow with html to plod through your code and look for the specific errors. One drawback of DW is I just don't hand code much (use or lose).

Perhaps you could change the graphic a bit so that you could break it into 3-4 sections. Then use show/hide layers to make the changes. You would need to be careful the page doesn't get too heavy (large)though. Peace

http://www.bluetone.biz

BT