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    Posted: 24 November 2003 at 3:43pm

I'm currently redesigning a page and I'm looking for a specific effect. I want to have a text area (not a form, just a place with text...like an iframe or table or something) that scrolls, but the kicker is that I want to have an image overlay the text. The image will stay static. The best way to describe it is if you cut hole in a plain piece of paper with edges like /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ and you slid moving text under it...that's the effect i'm going for. I know it's possible because I've seen it done a few times, I just can't remember where (figures...ech). I believe that it has to do with DHTML, CSS, or both. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Here's an image to hopefully help with what I'm going for:

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 November 2003 at 4:57pm
What you are looking for is something similar to this
http://www.fearrington.com/


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 November 2003 at 5:46pm

Close, but i need the image to actually go over the text.

Thanks!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 November 2003 at 6:14pm
It's the same concept the image will be part of a static layer above the text layer and the text will scroll under that static layer.

If you take the image a set a transparency color in the GIF and place it so that it is static right above the iframe it will give you the effect that you wish.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 November 2003 at 12:25pm
I don't think GIF would work, since GIF only marks one color as transparent. PNG allows you to mark multiple transparancy color's, so chose PNG-32.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05 December 2003 at 4:13pm
Have you checked out CSS layers?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 December 2003 at 2:17pm

could you post an example?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 December 2003 at 6:19pm

look at http://www.pyers.com/stuff/

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BTW... as far as books on css go - IMHO - there's Eric Meyer and in second place is everyone else.



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