Netscape .style.left

[Pinpoint]

Hi,

I am developing a drop-down menu. To position the drop down boxes I am setting (item).style.left in IE, but Netscape ignores it. Same with .style.top . Any suggestions ?

Secondly: Can I have an href link to an mp3 file which instead of automatically invoking the media player, allows the user to download the file ?

Thanks,

Pinpoint

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Pinpoint,

As well as setting style.left and/or style.top, have you also tried setting "position:absolute" or "position:relative" ? If this doesn't work, try enclosing the drop-down in a DIV tag and applying those properties to the DIV instead of the list.

As far as I know, you can't change the browser's default behaviour for certain registered file types. You could change the extension to something other than ".mp3", but I think that would be a bad solution. Also, forcing the user to download the mp3 instead of playing it might be considered by some to be bad coding practice - since a lot of users are aware of right-clicking links to be able to "save as" (and this is most likely the reason that the "target" attribute was removed from the HTML strict DTD, IMHO)...

Dan

 

[Pinpoint]

Dan, thanks.

I was already using a div with position:absolute, so it was easy to add in the top/left to the div.style as you suggest.

Re downloading the .mp3. I zipped one up, and the .zip file was larger than the .mp3. So I thought as I want to offer site visitors the option to play the .mp3 file (which may be quite large) or to download it without having to start their player and click 'file/save-as', it would be handy to be able to download the .mp3 rather than a .zip. If this isnt possible I will just href the .zip too and leave it to the user to decide how they want to download.

Pinpoint