ISethWebster

During a recent project I decided to add some fancy fading divs for AJAX UI feedback.  I was working with some simple cross-browser code to change the opacity over time, and was banging my head on why I couldn't get some of the divs to fade consistently.  Then I found this on Rick Strahl's blog:

http://west-wind.com/WebLog/posts/10213.aspx

Apparently IE requires that a width be set on the div prior to attempting opacity changes.

Original Opacity fading code was found here:

http://www.brainerror.net/scripts_js_blendtrans.php

The second page listed gives the information about the width requirement, but I didn't see it the first time through <g>.

The next issue, noticed is that IE seems to do a poor job of maintaining the appearance of the text inside the div.  In Mozilla the fades work beautifully -- in IE the text becomes jagged and chunky.

No solution yet.

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I've written about a new project to develop an ASP.NET-like framework for developing PHP web sites.  This framework has already begun its life in production sites...  Read more here:

http://webglimmerinc.com/community/blogs/sethwebster/archive/2007/06/13/phpx-a-web-development-framework-for-php.aspx