RE: BlindDown recommendations?

Hey Jim

I think it's best to programmatically set the hidden attribute on your cart
:

Element.hide('cart-expanded');

See the archived mails for some info that I think is related. It's to do
with the difficulties of overriding CSS element declarations that's aren't
set via a style attribute (i.e. proper external CSS).

Sept Archive
<http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails-spinoffs/2005-September/thread
.html>
Thread subj <Element.show - element.style.display=''>

HTH

Matt



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> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm putting together a site that will have a shopping cart 
> tab along the
>   top which, when clicked, slides down to reveal the full 
> contents of the cart (covering the page underneath it).
> 
> When designing it and getting the styling right, I had the 
> page display the cart fully open by default. This worked fine 
> - the cart can close and open any number of times without problem[1].
> 
> However, the intention is that the cart is normally closed 
> when the page is loaded. When I made that the default, with 
> display: none; the cart would no longer open. I tried all 
> sorts of things to fix it, or to just see what was going on, 
> but I confess my javascript is weak - it's why I chose 
> script.aculo.us in the first place :)
> 
> I've simplified the page down to these two examples:
> 
> http://www.vorivore.com/cart-slide-test-closed.html
> 
> and
> 
> http://www.vorivore.com/cart-slide-test-open.html
> 
> and the css for them is at
> 
> http://www.vorivore.com/cart-slide-test.css
> 
> (the full mockup page with cart is at 
> http://www.vorivore.com/vorivore-cart-mock-down.html )
> 
> I'd appreciate any advice on how to make this work - I'm a 
> bit past my depth here.
> 
> 
> [1] Actually, IE fails to animate the close, and both IE and 
> FF has a "flash" or "blip" problem as well, but I'll settle 
> for having it work before I worry about details like that.
> 
> -Jim
> 
> 
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