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Re: Shading a <div>

Message-ID <1750700.sGQGJBOIHu@PointedEars.de> (permalink)
From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Organization PointedEars Software (PES)
Date 2012-05-29 23:06 +0200
Subject Re: Shading a <div>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
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Tom de Neef wrote:

> […]
> Shading the whole client area apart from the focal <div> is not an option.
> It should be per <div>.
> 
> I know how to make a <div> element semi-transparent. And I know how to add
> such a veil to the document and position it over a target <div>.
> But I would like it to be 'attached to' the target <div> so that it stays
> over it even when the target div resizes or moves (e.g. as a result of
> window resizing or server instructions).
> Can you think of an elegant way to do this and give suggestions, please.

Position the target `div' element relative and the blocking `div' element 
absolute as its child with left: 0, right: 0, top: 0, bottom: 0.

Did I miss anything?


PointedEars
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Shading a <div> "Tom de Neef" <tdeneef@qolor.nl> - 2012-05-29 22:52 +0200
  Re: Shading a <div> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-05-29 23:06 +0200
    Re: Shading a <div> "Tom de Neef" <tdeneef@qolor.nl> - 2012-05-29 23:35 +0200
      Re: Shading a <div> "Tom de Neef" <tdeneef@qolor.nl> - 2012-05-29 23:37 +0200
    Re: Shading a <div> "Tom de Neef" <tdeneef@qolor.nl> - 2012-05-30 09:13 +0200
      Re: Shading a <div> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-05-30 10:14 +0200

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