Moving Objects Vertically

Good ‘ol Yehuda Shiran is back to show you how to move those objects. No, I am not referring to moving some furniture around here. I am talking about moving Web objects, thanks to help from this tutorial here. Check it out:

One of the trickiest tasks in DHTML is to move objects on the screen, independent of the browser. Let’s focus on the vertical location of an object, usually associated with the word top. Netscape Navigator uses the top property of an element, while Internet Explorer uses the pixelTop property of the style object property. Netscape 6 uses the W3C Standard’s top property of the style object property. Since Internet Explorer 5+ supports this property as well, we can use the following browser-independent code to move objects vertically: