J
JMorris
FP Friends,
Hi. I hope someone has a Javascript that can make the target cell of
a hyperlink briefly "glow". This would assist in navigation to show a
reader where the information they were seeking is located.
I have a newspaper oriented website that is just a single page. It's
inexpensive to maintain and interesting in that it uses the visual
grammar of the newspaper as the model for the website. However, I've
been told that navigation is not so straightforward (I believe in part
because a newspaper is MUCH bigger in terms of visual real estate that
the typical 17" monitor).
So, I'd like to have the target cell of a hyperlink "glow" briefly
when after the navigation occurs. I have used Javascripts
successfully for a few simple things, and figure someone out there
knows how to do this.
Basically, I'd like the target cell to glow or flash brightly for a
second or so, and then fade to its regular colour. (FYI, all the
target cells are "headline cells" where it makes sense that the eye
would be drawn to a brief highlight.) The actual HTML attribute that
would change would be the cell background colour. And maybe to make
it "glow", we would cycle through four separate colours, the first one
bright and then each subsequent one paler than the last?
I won't be able to write any Javascript, so any actual examples or
references to downloadable instances would be very much appreciated.
Published from FP2002.
Many thanks,
John
Hi. I hope someone has a Javascript that can make the target cell of
a hyperlink briefly "glow". This would assist in navigation to show a
reader where the information they were seeking is located.
I have a newspaper oriented website that is just a single page. It's
inexpensive to maintain and interesting in that it uses the visual
grammar of the newspaper as the model for the website. However, I've
been told that navigation is not so straightforward (I believe in part
because a newspaper is MUCH bigger in terms of visual real estate that
the typical 17" monitor).
So, I'd like to have the target cell of a hyperlink "glow" briefly
when after the navigation occurs. I have used Javascripts
successfully for a few simple things, and figure someone out there
knows how to do this.
Basically, I'd like the target cell to glow or flash brightly for a
second or so, and then fade to its regular colour. (FYI, all the
target cells are "headline cells" where it makes sense that the eye
would be drawn to a brief highlight.) The actual HTML attribute that
would change would be the cell background colour. And maybe to make
it "glow", we would cycle through four separate colours, the first one
bright and then each subsequent one paler than the last?
I won't be able to write any Javascript, so any actual examples or
references to downloadable instances would be very much appreciated.
Published from FP2002.
Many thanks,
John