Tuesday, September 04, 2007 at 1:33 PM
Recently, while working on a gadget, I had a number of elements that needed to disappear as the mouse moved away from the gadget. Originally I was using code like this: label1.visible = false; label2.visible = false;.... But then I remembered the div element. I encapsulated all my labels in one div and wrote labelDiv.visible = false. Teo's knowledge base article describes other situations where the div element is useful.
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2 comments:
i'd like to stress this is essential when managing complex UI. it also helps for positioning a group of related elements.
That's correct, this can save you a lot of stress. A good way to look at this is: whenever you add a UI element which can visually be grouped with others, stop and make a div on the way. You won't regret it in the future :)
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